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...Robe, a prominent celestial mathematician, noted that Pluto rides on orbit that fits the orbit a runaway planet would take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomers Say 'Planet' Pluto May Be Satellite From Neptune | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Foreign Minister, senior military officers, and politicians of every hue, was on hand at Athens airport. As his plane touched down and Makarios emerged, smiling glassily (he had been airsick on the flight from Kenya), the crowd roared. Women shrieked and wailed, struggled to kiss his hands and black robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Return of the Archbishop | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...examination of another kind of expert: Defense Attorney Geoffrey Lawrence, Q.C. A puckish, mousy little man with a mind as orderly as a calculating machine. Barrister Lawrence, specialist in real estate and divorce cases, was a relative stranger in criminal court. In his curled white wig and black silk robe, he lacked entirely the stage color of the traditional defense lawyer; yet almost apologetically he managed to leave witness after witness floundering in confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Guilty | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...royal visitor in Saudi Arabia, Iran's handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi donned a seamless broadcloth robe, joined other pilgrims in a trek to Mecca, Islam's holiest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...special humor and humanity into a rare historic abstraction. As the play opens, Joan is seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with "a man in a beautiful clean robe with two great white wings" to her final defiance before those who call her sorceress and heretic: "What I am, I will not denounce. What I have done, I will not deny." Hallmark Producer-Director George Schaefer's light-and-camera play brought splendor to the color screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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