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...reception for a visiting Italian official, Weinberger showed up an hour late, greeted the guest of honor in the glare of a television light that suddenly popped on, chatted with other guests and said his farewells amid a quick round of handshakes. Elapsed time: 14 min., 45 sec. "He knows his presence can make or break an event," said Host Paul Laxalt, whose event had evidently just been made...
...other than our own: a warm ball of gas about the size of Jupiter seen orbiting around Van Biesbroeck 8, a star some 21 light-years from the earth. Since a light-year is the distance light travels in one year at the rate of 186,000 miles per sec., that would put the planet about 123 trillion miles from the earth. Said a confident Donald McCarthy Jr., the astronomer who headed the Arizona team: "It's a large planet orbiting around a small star...
...afternoon, and an hour later that evening, he was free of the 323-lb., air-driven unit that normally runs the heart, and was hooked up to a small, 11-Ib. device encased in a leather shoulder bag. The portable system worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook his hand. Then he asked for some ice cream...
...composing a piece like that. It would be very beautiful, and I would offer it to Muzak." Perhaps Cage had that in mind when he created 4' 33 ", which consists of one or more musicians sitting on a stage and not playing their instruments for 4 min. 33 sec...
First Chicago admitted last week that the Securities and Exchange Commission is also investigating the bank's huge third-quarter loss. Among other things, the SEC is trying to determine whether the bank improperly put off declaring the bad loans in order to protect its profits...