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...committee has also protested similar tactics in the In Search of... and The Outer Space Connection programs aired by NBC. Though also broadcast as entertainment, one 'show clearly supported the idea that the huge drawings on Peru's Nazca plains could have been made only with the help of ancient visitors from outer space. It stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography...
Immediately after Harden stripped away the outer layer of paper from the package, a sealed letter--which was not opened yesterday--"on the Sacco-Vanzetti case," addressed to "Sir Horace Plunkett" tumbled...
Even for the city of stars, it was a cosmic event at the Hollywood Bowl. On the program of "Music from Outer Space-a Star Wars Concert," was the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Zubin Mehta, playing excerpts from Gustav Hoist's The Planets and Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, better known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For special effects, each instrument stand in the orchestra had been hooked up to a microphone controlled by sound engineers, and stabbing rays of laser light began crisscrossing the bowl. As the music changed in intensity, the laser...
...them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect, all we have left. All we have left is Alaska...
...test-ban agreement, outlawing nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space, is already in effect between the superpowers. Two other agreements, limiting the size of underground explosions, have been signed by both sides but have not been ratified by the U.S. Senate. Nonetheless, as a top priority in its arms-control program, the Carter Administration has been pushing for a new, comprehensive test-ban agreement. Reason: it is fearful that the Russians, who have made far greater use of nuclear firepower than the U.S. for earth moving and other engineering purposes, could be gaining valuable military...