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...million places in the universe that could support life. Morrison thinks there must be 100 million such places right here in our own galaxy. Shapley, for his part, seems to think the earth is a small and forgotten potato anyway. "On this little planet around a run-of-the-mill star on the edge of a galaxy," Shapley complains to Garroway, "we're out of touch...
...Eton, he had been to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Heidelberg, Oxford and Cambridge. Since, in fact, he was born in the New York area of indeterminate parentage, he always refused to speak Russian in public. But he was scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain. He lived on both coasts of North America and made occasional trips into what he called "the interior" in search of funds. During his numerous sojourns in jail, he carried a walking stick during exercise hours. Because he said he had once escaped from Ellis Island by trudgen crawl...
...legal abortion-as did TV Performer Sherry Finkbine of Phoenix, Ariz. (TIME. Aug. 10, Aug. 24), because she had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. But the national Medical Board, which must pass on all such requests, seems in no mood to let Sweden get a reputation as an abortion mill for foreigners. It turned down the request of a Los Angeles schoolteacher who had sold all her possessions to raise the fare to Sweden. By last week, the board had approved only one more application-for a woman from West Germany...
...Ulan Bator (Red Hero) boasts a finer hotel than any in Moscow. A state hospital, equipped by Czechoslovakia, is superbly run by a staff of 35 doctors (25 Mongols, five Russians, four Czechs, one Chinese). Sturdy Mongol girls tend up-to-date British machinery in a large textile mill, and the sons of nomad horsemen study physics at the state university. Russia and its European satellites have poured nearly $3 billion into Outer Mongolia. Hungarian technicians operate 300 oil wells in the Gobi desert, and the crude oil is trucked to a Soviet-built refinery at Sain Shanda...
...take a jeweler's eyepiece, however, to see that Cartier's might be in for a change of character. Biggest member of the share-buying syndicate apparently was Ramco Enterprises, Inc. Ramco, which also owns a shopping center and a textile mill, is headed by Ira Guilden, 66, a smooth-running Wall Street operator who was once vice president of Bulova Watch. Another member of the syndicate-along with two unnamed charity trusts-was Edward G. Goldstein, a well-heeled Bostonian. Goldstein is the financial power behind Marcus & Co., which operates the jewelry departments in 20 Gimbel Bros...