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...floating chromatic leads over the top, more than similar in style to Roxy Music's Andy Mackay. Lunch whispers her way through the materials, setting up gothic imagery much better than one might have imagined. In fact, the complete song is quite effective, not unlike reading one's first Roald Dahl story. The true thrust of the album is found in this crosscurrent of styles. Lydia Lunch definitely draws on these particular resources, and she's not afraid to show off her new permutations...
DIED. Finn Ronne, 80, American polar explorer; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. The son of a Norwegian sailmaker who had gone to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Ronne joined Byrd's 1933 expedition there as a radio operator and dogsled driver. Over the next 25 years, he returned to the South Pole eight times (thrice with his wife Edith, one of the first women to make the trip). On a 15-month trek in 1946-48, he disproved the notion that the continent was divided in two, and finished charting the Weddell...
...then give it a powerful boost into higher orbit. Declared NASA'S Frosch: "The obstacles involved were insurmountable, in the time remaining." Russian scientists, in effect, agree, although they note that if plans for a cooperative effort had been started two years ago, a rescue might have been possible. Roald Sagdoyev, director of the Institute of Space Research of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, told TIME: "All the operations needed to give Skylab an additional impulse could have been made within the limits of existing rocket and space technology?either American or Soviet." The U.S., he said, could have helped...
Scott (Arthur Hill) will not permit the use of Huskies (though his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen, played by Michael Higgins, does) on the ground that it is unsporting. Offstage, the blizzards howl like the piercing moans of the damned...
...managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...