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JUPITER'S TAIL. Because their cores are molten metal, both Jupiter and the earth possess mighty magnetic fields. Both planets also carry magnetic tails -or bulges in their magnetic fields -caused by exposure to the million-mile-per-hour solar wind, a flow of highly charged particles from the sun. Satellites of the Pioneer series determined in 1966 that the earth's magnetic tail extends some 395,000,000 miles "down solar wind" of the planet. The Pioneer 10 satellite, which recently passed Jupiter on its way out of the solar system, proved that Jupiter's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News Under the Sun | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...family consciousness like a dark cloud--but in a world as protective and as solipsistic as the one the Rockefellers inhabit, that may very well not be the case at all. Collier and Horowitz make a convincing argument for wealth having immeasurable influence on the characters of those who possess it, but they draw the relationship a little too strongly. After all, these are people who, by any standards except perhaps their own, are extraordinarily happy and free from want, able to do whatever pleases them. We should all have their problems...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Poor Little Rich People | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

that ultimately repulsed nearly all of them. Similarly, he was driven to possess his women, was wildly jealous to retain them for himself alone although he had moved on to other interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...That if they do not grant it, I will ally myself completely with the all-out anti-bomb faction throughout the entire U.S. That this group had only been waiting for a strong leader and I am ready to dedicate the rest of my life and every cent I possess in a complete no quarter fight to outlaw all nuclear testing of every kind and everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: From the Penthouse Papers | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

However, the unrestrained praise for McCue, who is said to possess an exceptional combination of administrative, academic and professional experience, has not silenced rumblings of discontent that broke into the open at the GSD last month. These feelings have since returned to their customary sub-surface position...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Not Simply Another Release | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

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