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Arthur Katz, author of Ben Israel, Odyssey of a Modern Jew, will tell about the crisis that led him to become a Christian Jew in the Kirkland House JCR tonight at 7:30 p.m. Katz, a Berkeley graduate who was active in Communist front activities during the fifties, also authored The Bible, the Supernatural, and the Jews...
...companion, Astronomer Richard Keating, it was the beginning of a journey into the most esoteric realms of modern science. Occupying four seats in the big 747's tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes more slowly for a rapidly moving object than for an object at rest...
...experiments, photographing parts of the lunar surface never before seen by man, and in the case of Scott and Irwin, catching up on some badly needed sleep. On the last day in orbit, activities perked up. The astronauts were awakened by the theme from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and later launched a 78.5-lb. scientific sub-satellite into orbit around the moon. Almost immediately, earthbound controllers detected radio signals from the $1.7 million instrument package. The satellite's sensors will provide new information about the plasmas and magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon. Ground trackers...
...15th skyjacking attempt on scheduled U.S: airlines this year.* Only this time the destination seemed reminiscent of the 1969 skyjacking in which Raphael Minichiello, a U.S. Marine, commandeered an airliner for a 17-hour odyssey to Rome. Minichiello was released from an Italian jail last spring after serving only 18 months of a 71-year sentence for the crime...
...rock, soared to $1.1 billion. By and large it is the young who spend all that money. Given the right impetus, they are not necessarily averse to the classics-as proved by what Elvira Madigan did for Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467, or 2001: A Space Odyssey did for Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra. "If Elvira Madigan made Mozart a relevant experience for the youth generation," asks Munves, "why can't we make it happen for other composers...