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Many Asian families have moved into city hotels while they wait for flights to London or Bombay. Women and children are swathed in silk saris and wear whatever jewelry they own in order to prevent it from being stolen or confiscated; even the smallest child wears pearls in her ear lobes or nostrils. The men have developed a reflex of patting breast pockets to make sure their passports are still there. Strangers identify themselves to one another by mentioning the names of companies they were associated with. "National Trading," says one woman, referring to one of the country...
Using batteries of instruments that include solar telescopes equipped with cameras, spectroscopes and magnetographs, they maintain constant vigilance of the sun, looking for the smallest sign of unusual solar activity. But the accurate forecasting of flare-ups is still what Solar Physicist Robert Noyes of the Harvard and Smithsonian observatories calls "very much a black art," a description that is fully supported by last week's dramatic-and unexpected-events...
...world record. But she is a constant worrier-about keeping up with the housework, about not spending enough time with the baby-and it sometimes affects her performances. Almost a foot shorter than Ilona is Olga Korbut, who weighs only 84 Ibs. She is the smallest member of a Russian gymnastic team that as usual looks exceptionally talented. Unusually, so does the U.S. women's squad...
...fine that it can turn the view of a train rushing through the industrial wastes of Tokyo into a sight as pleasing as a misty seaside mountainscape. Ozu has often been criticized for sets that are too neat, tidy and unnatural, but his love for the smallest details reveal the perceptions of a superb visual artist...
...many of the others. (Doug's Eliot House friends are the core of the group. I work for Don because Doug and I have a mutual friend.) He knows all of us, yet he's one of the few people who can talk to Don privately. He handles the smallest problems, of people placement, and logistics. He has a distinguishing pad of yellow legal paper...