Word: planet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back on the scene in force, is living his usual abnormal life. At his training camp in Miami Beach, he heads an entourage that looks like a touring vaudeville act. There is Bundini, the cornerman and personal mystic who calls him "the Blessing of the Planet"; a handler whose sole job is to comb Ali's hair; assorted grim-faced Muslim operatives; imperturbable Angelo Dundee, his trainer since 1960; Norman Mailer; Actor Burt Lancaster; Cash Clay Sr. in red velvet bellbottoms, red satin shirt and a plantation straw hat; the Major, a high roller from Philly who tools around...
...Associated Press and the New York Post received letters Monday signed by the "Weather Underground" claiming credit for the bombing. The letter said, in part, "We have attacked the Capitol because it is a . . . monument of U. S. domination over the planet...
...fires and spinning it off into the cosmos. In his new book on the Apollo 11 moonshot, Of a Fire on the Moon, ego and history meet at half way, and it has taken a subject of no mean importance, the highest conscious design of the archimperium of the planet as well as a deliberate scaling down of his ego to bring the meeting...
...limits of the play are clear precisely because the current off-Broadway revival is as good as one can legitimately imagine. Man's parlous state on this spinning planet is beautifully rendered by Henderson Forsythe's Vladimir and Paul B. Price's Estragon. As the slave Lucky, Anthony Holland mimes with the aching dignity of a Marceau, though his master, Pozzo (Edward Winter) is a shade too Blimpish. This is Alan Schneider's finest piece of directing since Virginia Woolf-sentient, taut, sharp as the image in a jeweler's glass...
...intense heat. That the craft survived as long as it did was a testimonial to the increasing sophistication of the Soviet space program. Venera 7 was the 17th Soviet mission to Venus.* Although the last three probes were on target, deployed parachutes and transmitted data after entering the planet's atmosphere, none reached the surface in operating condition; they were either crushed or overheated while floating down through the dense, broiling atmosphere...