Word: novas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selling dreams of kingdoms," says Real Estate Salesman Bob Douglas, 34, of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, who claims to have sold millions of dollars worth of rocky isles. Nor is there any likelihood of an immediate island shortage. There are an estimated 1 million outcroppings off North American shores alone, plus many more thousands of fresh-water isles from the lower St. Lawrence River to the westerly straits of Lake Huron...
...than the fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
...first and lifted off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field even before the weather turned. The Spirit was so weighted with fuel that he cleared the telephone lines at the end of the runway by only 20 feet. His route took him up through New England, over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, past the green southern tips of Ireland and England, and finally over the Channel to France...
...power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told Griggs: "I am Angolan, born here. My skin is white, but I am not Portuguese in my heart. There are good people in this country, many of them mulatto or black. If they get control here after independence, all will be well. But if the wild...
Billed as "science adventures for curious grownups," Nova so far has looked to the skies to describe the distant Crab nebula and explain the pulsar, a kind of astronomical time clock that lies within it. The program has gone underseas for a scientific examination of dolphins and whales, resisting the temptation to Flipperize its subjects. It has even presented a fascinating inside look at the difficulties that a team of science-film makers encountered in making a nature film. Other shows will explain experiments with Washoe, a chimpanzee who has been taught to speak in sign language, and tackle...