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Kissinger's one serious temptation is food-the gooier the better. A slight bulge beneath his satin cummerbund testifies to his indulgence. If he accepts many invitations, he also returns them. Though he loves to make stellar appearances at Washington's celebrity-packed Sans Souci restaurant, he often takes friends to dine at a modest Chinese restaurant, where his patronage is proudly noted on the menu. When he goes to Paris, he likes to bring back silk scarves to give to friends. The less visible Kissinger takes delight in his two children (he was divorced from his wife...
...moons; it is inconceivable to them that it can evolve among the molecules floating in space or within the nuclear fires of stars. But are there any planets outside the solar system? The capability of detecting a planet in orbit around even the sun's nearest stellar neighbor is beyond the power of the largest optical telescopes, but many astronomers are convinced that there are billions of planets in the observable universe. The sun, they note, is an ordinary star in an island of 100 billion stars, the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way, in turn, is just...
...injuries to Crone, and then to Foster, propelled Stoeckel into the starting line-up for Dartmouth, and he responded with a stellar passing performance. Completing 20 of 37 pass attempts, he broke a long standing Harvard record for most pass completions in one game, and fell only a few yards short of the mark for most passing yardage. Judging from his performance in that game, and last week at Penn. Stoeckel has a good chance of starting the remainder of the season...
...basic industry, pouring out the prime ingredient for countless products from can openers to skyscrapers. Steelmakers' decisions on prices were often handed down like baronial decrees, infuriating customers and successive U.S. Presidents. Today the steel industry is a troubled giant, no longer smugly certain of its stellar role. Its management has lagged in adapting new technology to help curb flyaway costs and prices. Competitors from abroad and from other industries, including plastics and aluminum, are buzz-sawing into its markets...
...observatories: "It's just not realistic for us to go out now and try to get the cooperation of 80 or so cities in shielding street lights and cutting glare." Instead, California astronomers are trying other tactics. With the help of computers, for example, they can work over stellar images and remove the worst effects of extraneous light during certain types of observations. But such technological tricks are only stopgaps. Most California astronomers agree that the day is not far off when they will have to transfer their telescopes to new peaks, if any suitable ones can still...