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...chosen date. This spot will help you determine the comet's position relative to familiar groups of stars. But the time of day for observing Halley's and the direction in which to look will vary. This week, for example, observers in the northern hemisphere should search the southwestern sky during the evening. The best view is on clear, moonless nights, far from city lights...
Accordingly, it was in an atmosphere of considerable tension that some 4,500 delegates, parliamentarians, party functionaries, journalists and foreign observers gathered in the southwestern city of Toulouse last week for the Socialists' biennial congress. The delegates' agenda: to draw up the main lines of a new party policy and hammer out a strategy for the election campaign. Their real mission: to resolve the party's identity crisis and find ways to restore its lost respect. "Toulouse is not the congress of disillusion and defeat, as they would have us believe," insisted Gaston Defferre, one-time presidential candidate, former Interior...
...sometimes to just go rest and not get ideas," he says stoutly, but, Ishioka insists, "he cannot stay in one place for more than three days." Figuratively, at least, that is just as well. In May he lived out a long-cherished goal and traveled the southwestern United States by car, and he is now dreaming of further voyages. To Buenos Aires in November; to Tahiti for the new year. "Make me a plan for my trip," he will ask friends who have covered the same territory. "I'll go anywhere," he adds, although there is no mistaking that. "Where...
Other nicknames take real imagination. When Pace University had to think of a nickname a few years ago, they chose the Setters. And perhaps the best nickname in all of college football is the Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, a nickname that strikes just the right balance between tradition and intimidation, without being too cutesy...
...hypnotic opening montage, for example. Five travelers on horseback--four men and a woman--are seen moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within...