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...Carl Sagan, Sc.D., astronomer. In combining the disciplines of science you have shown that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...
...President looks back into history with more understanding now. Harry Truman has grown in his eyes. He has studied Robert Donovan's new Truman book, Conflict and Crisis, and has pressed it on his friend Charles Kirbo. His private pantheon has gained the likes of Astronomer Carl Sagan, Country Singer Larry Gatlin, House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has sought more information about John Kennedy and James Michael Curley...
...while later, Astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself lugging his slide box into the Vice President's big new house and, after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens. Carter asked most of the questions, his eyes bright with the sense of adventure, urging that any new missions to Mars seek out mountains and valleys and old volcanoes instead of staying on the more level or gently rolling surfaces...
...fill other jobs on the show, Shanks has been talking to such nonelectronic types as Georgia State Senator Julian Bond about covering politics, Astronomer Carl Sagan about handling science segments and former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Hoving about reporting on culture. Shanks has signed French Documentary Maker Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity) to film reports from Europe and former Esquire Editor Harold Hayes to oversee the editorial content. In a confidential memo to his bosses, Shanks wrote that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless, and its 14-minute pieces nowadays often seem too long." He promised...
...Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly that listeners could predict the appearance of the next type of signal." Carl Sagan noticed that the same phenomenon occurs in the humpback whale who is known to sing "songs" that are up to 30 minutes long, and then to repeat them a little later "phoneme for phoneme." He asks, "Is it possible that the intelligence of Cetaceans is channeled into the equivalent of epic...