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...says Producer-Director Michael Roemer in summary of the stern message of Dying, his searing 97-minute television documentary made for Boston's WGBH, to be aired this Thursday on PBS channels across the country. It is an intimate portrait of how three cancer patients who know they are going to die contend with this reality to the very end. Dying is a camera probe into forbidden reaches of our fears...
HIID now has a team stationed in Tanzania, advising that socialist government on drawing up a long-range plan for its industrialization. Michael Roemer, the former project director in Tanzania, says that during the 1970-71 demonstrations, the DAS "perhaps looked harder for projects in socialist countries than we had before." And the Tanzania project, which was first broached to Harvard in late 1970 at the height of anti-CFIA activity, is a blue chip in what another staffer calls a policy of "getting a politically-diversified portfolio of project countries--as they would be seen from Harvard," pursued...
Sticky Glue. Some NASA astronomers speculated that the sun's heat might have baked the comet's exterior into a kind of "sticky glue" that prevented some of the cometary dust and gas from boiling off. University of Arizona Astronomer Elizabeth Roemer, for one, found this theory improbable. Comets, she explained, are too gaseous and fragile to develop such a crust. Other astronomers suggested that Kohoutek, a "virgin" comet making its first approach to the inner part of the solar system and never before exposed to the warmth of the sun, had flared up briefly when its more...
Astronomers are still in disagreement about how bright the comet will appear to viewers on earth. Elizabeth Roemer, for one, doubts that Kohoutek will live up to its earlier billing as "comet of the century." Other scientists are still confident that the comet will put on a good celestial show. In any event, Kohoutek should become visible to the naked eye early in January-about an hour after sunset, just above the southeastern horizon-and could continue to put on a spectacular performance until the middle of the month...
...early discovery meant that Kohoutek was not only intrinsically brighter than Halley's comet but probably quite large. Astronomer Elizabeth Roemer, of the University of Arizona, estimates that Kohoutek's nucleus is about 25 miles in diameter, far larger than most comets, probably including Halley's. Other astronomers calculate that Kohoutek weighs about 1 trillion tons. But size is not Kohoutek's only distinction. It will pass within 13 million miles of the sun. That close flyby, well within the orbit of Mercury, should make for a dazzling interaction between sun and comet. Perhaps most important...