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Word of Wyman's departure quickly spread to a party on Manhattan's East Side. A nebula of CBS and other journalism luminaries had gathered on the day of the board meeting at the Park Avenue apartment of Designer Mollie Parnis to fete 60 Minutes Host Mike Wallace and his bride of 2 1/2 months, Mary Yates. The already festive mood brightened considerably as an old Wallace friend telephoned over the news. There is little love lost for Wyman in CBS journalism circles, where the ex-chairman's decisions have been a target for strident criticism. Partygoers vied to congratulate...
...discovery will "revise theories of everything that involves kinematic distances--measurements of brightness of stars, densities, size and mass of gas, dust, plasma, pulsars, stars, nebula, anything that's in our galaxy," said Carl Gwinn, one of the study's participants from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space, but some are hurled toward the sun as comets. Although the Oort Cloud has yet to be seen, most astronomers agree it exists and is the flotsam left over when a nebula, a massive cloud of dust and gas, collapsed and formed the solar system...
Brin's second novel, "Startide Rising," won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel of 1983. "The Crystal Spheres" won the Hugo for Best Short Story of 1985, and "The Postman" came in second during the 1984 Hugo competition...
...Hugo is annually awarded by the World Science Fiction Convention where the number of voters each year averages about 1400. The Nebula Awards are chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Voting for the Nebulas is limited to the professional writers who belong to the organization...