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...chance to contemplate an event above and beyond politics and oil, wars and revolutions. It took nearly 1½ hours for the spacecraft's first data about the moment of closest approach to reach earth. But at planetariums from Washington, B.C., to Portland, Ore., "near encounter" shows attracted overflow crowds. In Edinburg, Texas, students erected their own satellite antenna to hear NASA's special Saturn broadcasts...
...shame that Bendix Corp. [Oct. 6] Vice President and Chief Corporate Planner Mary E. Cunningham's qualifications as a magna cum laude undergraduate and Harvard M.B.A. graduate are underplayed just because she is rated a "10." If the water-cooler gossips would quit gossiping, maybe their cups would overflow...
...books, ranging from speculations about life beyond the earth (The Cosmic Connection) to ruminations about the reptilian ancestry of the human brain (The Dragons of Eden) have sold millions of copies and have been translated into a dozen languages. His lectures, on campus as well as off, attract overflow crowds. He is at home on late-night TV bantering with Johnny Carson about heavenly bodies, both human and astronomical. He has also talked with Jimmy Carter about such esoteric matters as black holes and exobiology (the study of possible extraterrestrial life...
...insistence of Arkansas Governor Billy Clinton, the State Department's Cuban-Haitian Task Force will not send more than 10,000 refugees to Fort Chaffee. Any overflow from the other camps is supposed to be sent to Puerto Rico, where 250 Navy Seabees last week were constructing shelters for up to 5,000 refugees at Fort Allen, an old military base 40 miles southwest of San Juan. Puerto Rico has sued to stop the transfer, arguing that Fort Allen has inadequate sewage and water purification plants and antiquated electrical systems...
...only serious problem with this As You Like It stems from the very overflow of energy that makes each individual characterization so effective. The ART troupe comes to the Loeb fresh from an outdoor staging of the show at City Plaza, and its dimensions haven't been properly scaled down. Some carefully planned comic routines fail to connect because of gestures that are too large, movements too exaggerated, timing off. When Rosalind decides to flee the court with her confidante, the women give a victory whoop that flies into the air and then falls with a clunk on the stage...