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Global cooling might be explained by a link between ice ages and changes both in the earth's attitude and in its orbit around the sun. That concept was championed by Germany's Alfred Wegener (best known for his ideas about continental drift) and later refined by Yugoslav Mathematician Milutin Milankovitch, for whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor...
Conjunctions, or what seem to be close approaches of planets in the sky, are common occurrences; they take place at periodic intervals as the planets orbit the sun at differing angular velocities. In May of 7 B.C., Jupiter, which astrologers of the period considered both a royal star and a lucky one, first moved close in the sky to Saturn, which was believed to influence the destiny of the Jews. Even more significant, this conjunction occurred in the constellation Pisces, where celestial events traditionally foretold incidents of great importance to Israel. In September of that year, Jupiter again closed...
America has too many domestic problems to continue Secretary Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy. If the Secretary is hooked on world travel, he should be "shuttlecrafted" to Skylab. Then he can orbit the world every two hours...
...referring to Italy, had said he would "look with sympathy" on a Communist government in NATO, the Georgian retorted that the statement was "deliberate distortion." But Carter did once urge that the U.S. maintain friendly relations with Communist leaders in Italy to avoid driving them irrevocably into the Soviet orbit. When Ford cited Portugal's escape from Communist rule as a success for U.S. foreign policy, Carter replied, correctly, that the U.S. still "stuck to the Portugal dictatorships much longer" than other democracies had done. Among the other exchanges between the candidates...
...slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white urban working class. As Barney Frank explained. "He's one of the prices we have to pay for busing...