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...academic, interest in theater. The Towneley Cycle is one of those compendia of medieval religious plays halfway between ritual and modern drama. This production is the outgrowth of David Staines's English 211 and represents one of the few attempts to bring performing drama within Harvard's academic orbit. The English department should sit up and take note. Two of the three plays that make up the program were translated into modern English by students in the course; the other translation is a new one by William Alfred, professor of English. These plays are not just historical oddities--they...
...trying to win approval of a two-planet flight that would be launched in 1979 to send a single spacecraft past Jupiter and Uranus. He is also trying to whip up enthusiasm for a ship that would go into orbit around Jupiter, monitoring the planet up to three years...
Still other climatologists suspect that global temperature changes could stem from wobbles in the earth's rotation that alter the amount of sunlight striking the surface. Some think that there may even be subtle changes in the earth's orbit, which would increase or decrease the distance from...
...miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized package should touch down on July 4, 1976, near the mouth of a 3,000-mile-long gorge that cuts across the Red Planet like...
...bitter over what they consider longtime American support of the corrupt military dictatorship that preceded Caramanlis. The whole imbroglio with Turkey could have been avoided, the Greeks believed, if Washington had vetoed the attempt by the Athens dictatorship to overthrow the Nicosia government and bring Cyprus into the Greek orbit, a switch Ankara obviously could not allow...