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...final piece, The Haffner Symphony is marked by terrific energy--which is just as well considering that it was past 1 a.m. when the piece began. Thanks to Hammer, the audience was still wide-awake, but the orchestra was beginning to tire. Still the outer movements were particularly enjoyable and the evening ended with a fine flourish...
...Died. Clarence Wilfred Jenks, 64, director general of the International Labor Organization since 1970 and a lawyer who wrote a pioneering study in 1965 on the legal problems of outer space; after a short illness; in Rome. -Died. Arthur Menken, 69, newsreel photographer who covered the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the siege of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Battle of Britain for Paramount, the March of Time and the Columbia Broadcasting System; of a liver ailment; in Florence, Italy...
...months or even years before the 200 solar scientists working on the Skylab program can digest the information. But some important discoveries have already been made, particularly about the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere. During the mission, at a time in the eleven-year solar cycle when the sun should be relatively quiet, two exceptionally large flares suddenly appeared; one of them expanded over an area 17 times the diameter of the earth. Under the direction of Garriott, a solar scientist by profession, the awesome event was photographed and measured from the first minutes of the eruption. Their...
Prices may seem high at first glance, but your taste buds will overrule your wallet by a longshot. The people are unusually friendly, and Underdog's pinball prices are lower than most places in the Square. (It also has the distinction of having a copy of Outer Space undoubtedly the best machine ever made...
...toward a rendezvous with Jupiter. Later this year NASA plans to launch a flyby of Venus and Mercury. In 1974 and 1976, with the help of European scientists, it will send Helios probes toward the sun. In 1977, as a substitute for its highly touted "grand tour" of the outer planets, it hopes to launch two flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. NASA's next probes of Mars will be in 1975, when two Viking softlanders will be launched-timed for a touchdown the following summer on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of American independence. Crammed with instruments-including...