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Weathier tourists are seeking more recondite or merely more ostentatious excursions. At the end of May, the Matson Lines' Monterey sailed from San Francisco with passengers who had paid from $1,510 to $4,565 to visit the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin once pondered the origin of species. Los Angeles' Hemphill Travel Service offers a" 32-day round-the-world tour for 60 people flying in a chartered Convair 990 with stops in Copenhagen, Malagasy. New Guinea and other lands. The fare is $9,960. Lindblad Travel. Inc., which spec;alizes in the exotic, has organized tours...
...beginning to look more like the place that Mark Twain described. Indira's visit was a major event, not just because she was the first chief of state to pay a call since independence, but also because about 67% of Mauritius' 807,000 people are of Indian origin. So, for that matter, is roly-poly Premier Sir See-woosagur Ramgoolam...
...residence at the University of South Carolina. The Orator was Loren Eiseley, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Eiseley read a selection from a forthcoming book in which he describes walking through a winternight and musing about man's origin and future...
Nebular Dust. Actually, that business has a promising future. Besides illuminating the complex mechanisms of stellar evolution and the building of elements, it could yield important clues to the origin of the universe. By measuring the effect on interstellar molecules of the so-called background radiation* (believed to be the faint remnant of the "big bang" that, according to one theory, created the universe), astronomers may learn more about the primordial explosion. Most intriguing of all, the molecules could provide tantalizing evidence of lifebuilding far from earth...
Piratical Origin. What stands in the way of CATV is the pre-cable entertainment industry. Flush with profits, the industry maintains powerful lobbies in Washington and boasts powerful friends; at least 30 Congressmen hold interests in TV stations, and most Federal Communications Commissioners are traditionally either drawn from the industry or go to it after they leave the commission. Conventional TV broadcasters do have very real grievances, for CATV could be piratical unless properly regulated. It was started to bring television to isolated or poor-reception areas. CATV entrepreneurs raised hilltop antennas, plucked the signals of distant channels from...