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Even before the huge aircraft, 232 ft. long and 196 ft. between wing tips, rose into the cloudless sky, the 14 women and four men flight attendants began making their 244 passengers comfortable. Still in their standard blue uniforms, the attendants served champagne to the twelve first-class passengers, who had paid $3,588 (round trip) to enjoy the roomy luxury of the top-deck lounge behind the cockpit cabin. Down on the main deck, nearly all of the 24 seats in the business-class section, where tickets cost $2,380, were occupied. Toward the rear, where passengers could...
Vega is one of the brightest stars in the summer sky; in the Northern Hemisphere it is visible almost directly overhead in the constellation Lyra. About 60 times as luminous as the sun, this glowing beacon is often used by astronomers to calibrate their instruments and judge the brightness of other celestial bodies. Now scientists have another reason to keep an eye on this prominent star. Last week Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that an orbital telescope, the new Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), appears to have found the first direct evidence that a far-off star could...
Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which made the announcement Wednesday, have said that the particles recently detected around the star Vega--one of the sky's brightest--could range in size anywhere from buckshot pellets to asteroids or large planets...
...streamside Last Chance Bar to hoist a few to the quest, and scores of more or less notables have continued to do the same. Most believe the rainbow trout that has eluded them until now will succumb to a perfectly presented green drake under a cerulean Idaho sky. Some fishermen actually catch their imagined fish. Most...
Franz Biberkopf presses his hands to the sides of his head, as if he were about to pulverize a rancid cantaloupe, and screams. He staggers wildly about the apartment-house courtyard, its high walls allowing the merest tantalizing glimpse of sky. This is Germany, 1927. As the nation spun from the humiliation of Versailles to economic and social anarchy, and then into the toxic delirium of the Third Reich, so Franz spins. A laborer and part-time pimp who has just been released from prison after serving four years for beating a girlfriend to death, Franz has few resources...