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...billion miles from the sun (more than half again as far as Pluto). It would take 464 years to complete a single trip around the sun, and the plane of its orbit would be tilted an angle of approximately 60° from the general orbital planes of the planets. Strangest of all, its motion would be retrograde; that is, it would travel around the sun in the opposite direction from all the other planets...
While homicide is as old as Cain, Mafia killings have a style all their own. They are the blood-feud eruptions of one of the nation's strangest and most powerful subcultures, and are carried out with an almost ritual quality. They are unlike fatal quarrels of husband and wife, random slaughter in delicatessen holdups and bar brawls, and the other killings that constitute the vast majority of murders in the U.S. Instead, the Mafia practices a drama of implacable tribal will: just as Clausewitz defined war as foreign policy by other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder...
...Telephone and Telegraph Corp.'s promise to help finance this summer's Republican National Convention, and the subsequent out-of-court settlement of a major antitrust case on terms relatively favorable to ITT. That case reached some kind of high point last week in one of the strangest Senate hearings ever held. Testifying from her Denver hospital bed, propped up on pillows and hooked up to heart monitoring equipment, ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard "categorically" but unconvincingly denied that she had written the celebrated memo released by Columnist
...driver who had just crossed the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, "bubblegum cards." Pulling over and opening the trunk of his car, he proudly pointed to stacks of shoeboxes containing thousands of picture cards of baseball players. To Canadian customs officials, it was one of the strangest cargoes they had ever seen. To Frank Nagy, 49, it was simply a representative sample of his 500,000 baseball cards, a collection that places him in the front ranks of those who participate in one of the U.S.'s most popular but least publicized hobbies...
Alarming Glove. Klinger's fetishism dominates his strangest and best known series of etchings: a fantasy which begins innocently enough with the artist picking up a girl's glove at a roller-skating rink, and follows the glove through a fabulous series of dream vicissitudes. The artist competes for this odd love-object against a baleful, glove-napping reptile-which, in The Abduction, sprouts wings like a pterodactyl and lurches off into the night sky with its prey. Such etchings, in their impassioned and somewhat poker-faced grotesqueries, are reminiscent of Goya, who gave visual substance to those...