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...Little Red Book amply demonstrates, Mao was the most readable of Marxist theoreticians. But in other speeches, poems and letters, Mao displayed even more strikingly than in the book a command of pungent metaphor, as well as occasional flights of lyricism. A sampler...
This year 112 colleges are getting new presidents. A six-school sampler of problems and prospects...
...designed to seek out. Eight days after the landing-an interval during which Viking will monitor Martian weather and seismology and shoot the mission's first color pictures-the ingeniously conceived and packaged laboratory (which occupies about a cubic foot of space) will begin operating. The surface sampler, a power-shovel-like bucket, will be extended from Viking by a boom that can reach 10 ft. It will scoop up a sample of Martian soil, which will then be distributed to three separate chambers of the laboratory. Using nutrients, radioactive tracers and analyzing devices, the lab will look...
...Viking 1's tests -and those done later by Viking 2 -prove negative, the question of life on Mars will remain unresolved; the landers may simply be in the wrong places, or organisms may be thriving just a few inches below the deepest excavation of the sampler. Or Martian bugs may simply have chemistry so different from that of terrestrial life that Viking may be unable to recognize the alien processes...
...Center for International Affairs. The other is The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan, which will be published in the U.S. next week; Golan's book was banned by Israeli military censors for revealing military secrets, but the ban was inexplicably lifted. A sampler from their reports...