Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eichner, from Kansas (remember Jim Ryun?), likewise shone as a Yardling, providing the extra strength needed to win the IC4A crown that year. Last fall, Eichner showed up at camp out of peak condition and failed to place among the top finishers until the end of racing season...
Incredible as it may seem, scientists are now postulating supergiant black holes as well, monsters with event horizons millions of miles across and formed from a mass equal to that of billions of suns. Observations with the big telescopes at California's Palomar and Arizona's Kitt Peak National observatories strongly support the likelihood that at least one such heavyweight exists in M87, a galaxy that appears to be spewing out a great jet of matter. Astronomers found that M87's center is ten times as bright as the rest of the galaxy, and is surrounded by stars orbiting...
...expensive sport (they estimated the cost of their flight at $125,000), the fact that all are wealthy also helped. Newman is president of Electra Flyer Corp., one of America's largest hang-glider manufacturing companies. Abruzzo is a land developer who is also president of the Sandia Peak Ski Co. He and Anderson, the president of a uranium and copper mining company, have been ballooning together for years and have had their share of adventures-once clearing Pikes Peak by just...
...Wine Omar Khayyam may have to be rewritten. For the Jug of Wine that went with the Loaf of Bread-and Thou, substitute Bag (for the Jug, that is). Instead of bottling their vintages in conventional glass, nearly two dozen California wine makers, including Almaden and Geyser Peak, are putting up bulk wines in four-ply plastic film bags equipped with patented on-off spout valves. Sometimes cunningly encased in cardboard kegs, the bags are cheaper than bottles, as well as easier to ship and store. The pioneering Scholle Corp. of Northlake, Ill., which claims that its bags keep wine...
Imports are expected to pick up rapidly during the rest of this year and reach new records in 1979, above last year's peak of 8.7 million bbl. a day. These projections have not been lost on the OPEC nations. Although they agreed to continue the cost of crude oil at its present $13 per bbl. when they last met in June, there have been signals from OPEC oil ministers that they may meet again as early as next month to jack up the price about 5%. To the present $42 billion cost of the U.S.'s annual...