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Scattered Details. She takes trips with Charles, serving as navigator and radio operator, and then, leaving behind her new son Jon, embarks on a five-month flight in a pontooned Lockheed Sirius to explore air routes over the Atlantic. Scattered among the details of such travel are passages of sharp perception. Commenting on a dinner with Harold Nicolson and his wife V. Sackville-West, Anne writes: "What is there about the English? You seem to be talking openly with perfect naturalness when-snap-the blind goes up (or down, actually) ... and you're left staring at the shutters...
...Barnard plan ets by using a classical astronomical technique: searching for irregularities in the path of a celestial body, a wobble that might be caused by the gravitational pull of a dark, unseen companion. As early as 1844, for example, astronomers concluded from wobbles in the path of Sirius that the bright star was accompanied through space by a star too faint to be seen from earth. The same technique has been used to establish that several other apparently single stars are actually members of a binary sys tem; they have stellar companions that are invisible from the earth...
Today, except for serving on civic boards, he relishes his ranch (a 200-acre spread with a private golf course near Palm Springs), his yacht (the 80-ft. Sirius II), his art collection (Rembrandt, El Greco, Vermeer, Rubens) and, above all, his privacy. Ahmanson runs his establishment from his midtown Los Angeles mansion. "I haven't met an employee in 20 years," he muses. "In insurance, maybe I had too much of people...
...called by the Romans, who believed that caniculares dies resulted when the bright Dog Star, Sirius, rising at dawn, added its heat to the sun's. In popular folklore, dogs are supposed to be especially prone to madness at this season...
...human crew, the heading can be read from dials or other display devices. One promising version of the new system will use the sun as a kind of North Pole. But as man's machines get farther into space, the scanner might locate a prominent star such as Sirius and use it as the changeless anchor point of the spacecraft's sense of direction...