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...essential element in the molecules of terrestrial life. Also, the presence of approximately the same percentage of argon found in the earth's air suggests that Mars at one time had a denser atmosphere more conducive to the evolution of life. Said Dr. Michael McElroy, a Harvard University physicist: "At an early stage. Mars apparently had enough pressure to hold quantities of water." And even today, notes the scientist, Mars may be capable of supporting life. "Look at what we need for life," said McElroy. "We need water; that we have. We need nitrogen; that we have. Phosphorus, phosphates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Mars: The Riddle of the Red Planet | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...historic decade of dissent in the Soviet Union. Since 1965 the KGB had conducted a campaign to fragment Russia's "democratic movement for human rights" by imprisoning or exiling its members. Amalrik, 38, was the last of his generation of celebrated protester-intellectuals to succumb. At Moscow airport, Physicist Valentin Turchin, a longtime Amalrik friend, explained that although a whole new group of lesser-known dissidents had sprung up to replace the old, "Andrei's departure is a pity for us; he is able to draw much attention to our movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Tactical Retreat | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...said. It is a similar endurance and a willingness to always begin again which makes him admire one of his friends, another Widener scholar who sat sipping coffee at the same lunch table. The woman, who also asked that her name be withheld, has been a Ph.D. mathematician and physicist in her native Austria, an antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Denizens of Widener | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...Italy-daring campaign maneuvers are being introduced in this election. To offset the same kind of voter distrust that has generated anti-Washington feelings in the U.S. presidential primaries, Italian parties for the first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead after Umberto filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Communists Seize the Initiative | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...daughter of an Eastern Air Lines pilot, Guthrie grew up in Miami, Fla., in a world of combustion engines, went on to log over 400 hours as a pilot herself, and has been driving fast cars since 1963. Single, a resident of New York City and a physicist, she was one of four women considered for astronaut status by NASA in 1965. She has competed in more than 120 recognized auto races; her most impressive wins were in the "Under 2 Liter Prototype" class at Sebring, Fla., in 1970 and in the "B Sedan" class in the 1973 North Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Right Track | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

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