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Democratic Governors Jerry Brown of California and Dick Lamm of Colorado were reelected, as were Republicans Robert Ray of Iowa and James Thompson of Illinois...
...instrument on board the cylindrical observatory is a 1,440-kg (3,200-Ib.) X-ray telescope, which is larger and has higher resolving power than any other ever built. From its perch high above the earth's obscuring blanket of air, it will provide new and sharper images of the myriad and puzzling sources of X rays found across the skies-and new insights into such bizarre phenomena as quasars, pulsars and black holes. As Harvard Astrophysicist Jonathan Grindlay put it: "We are at the dawn of a new era in our understanding of the universe." In honor...
...pcke, 18, was one of West Germany's more promising young boxers. Just last year the sturdily built youth was runner-up in his nation's junior heavyweight competitions. Now KÖpcke's career has been brought to an abrupt halt by an X-ray device known as the CAT scanner...
...social and invisible economic benefits of regulations. How, they ask, can anybody put a price tag on life and health? What is a few billion dollars here or there if thousands more workers will not suffer and die from cotton-dust poisoning or asbestos-caused cancers? Says Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, in support of stern safety and health regulations to protect workers: "A relaxation will increase the real social costs that our traditional economic indexes do not measure...
...begun to perk up under the new rules. Championships may be won by tightfisted defenses, but the offensive flair that was typical of the old A.F.L. has finally taken lively root in the sport, and this season has already produced 330 more points than last year. Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi explains: "The N.F.L. had gotten stereotyped, but the A.F.L. came up with new formations- multiple fronts, multiple coverages, using men in motion -and in the past four or five years, teams have begun to use them...