Word: spottedness
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Realizing the importance of his discovery, Shelton moved quickly to contact the International Astronomical Union's telegram service in Cambridge, Mass., the world's clearinghouse for announcements of new comets, asteroids and other transient astronomical phenomena. Shelton was the first to report the supernova, but, according to Service Director Brian...
The Friasi then spotted a sailor aboard a lifeboat and dropped a 30-ft. rope ladder. Drained of his strength after 22 hours in the howling storm, the crewman struggled slowly up the ladder. Only a few feet from safety, he was struck by a mountainous wave and lost in...
On the plains Leifer hunted with his camera. His safari guide stalked leopards and cheetahs by carefully sifting through footprints and dung. But the hunt did not always end when the quarry was sighted. "The animals had to be in the right setting and have the right light," says Leifer...
For 22 years Sir Rudolf Bing ran a great opera house as if it were his own home. Of sharp tongue and sharper mind, Sir Rudolf tended to every detail at New York City's Metropolitan Opera -- planning the season's repertoire, hiring (and firing) conductors, checking the seamstresses as...
Sir Rudolf Bing was spotted in the Caribbean last week, but this time occasionally mumbling "What day is it?" and in the company of a woman with a troubled past. His mind enfeebled by Alzheimer's disease, Bing, now 85, has been living for the past week in a modest...