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...fiery visitor is called Kohoutek (after its discoverer, Czech Astronomer Luboš Kohoutek- pronounced Loo-bosh Ko-hoe-tek); it promises to rival and perhaps surpass in brightness Halley's comet, which last appeared in 1910 and will not be seen again until 1986. By the time Kohoutek emerges from its passage behind the sun early in January, its tail should be full grown, a glittering streamer extending across as much as a sixth of the evening sky. There is some chance that Kohoutek will not live up to all its billing - comets are notoriously unpredictable. Some split into...
Harvard has a strong chance for a successful season, although the team will be hard pressed to surpass last year's 17-4-1- record, the best in a decade...
...housewife-saleswomen are awarded such prizes as new cars, microwave ovens and all-expense trips to London and Tokyo with their husbands. Of late, Dart has found the seemingly all-American formula quite as valuable overseas: Tupperware has been expanding abroad, and per capita sales in France now surpass those...
...highest levels, he is an intensely moral man. Marlowe is certainly his own man. He has codes of morality, justice, legitimacy. And he is comfortable in an urban, mechanized world. Even though the same essential things happen in each succeeding Chandler novel, the character Philip Marlowe seems to surpass his environment, deepening our perception of him, and strengthening him through the stereotype...
...deficits equal or surpass everyone's wildest fears, Hall said, there will be two options: to borrow the money from the Corporation and hope for a rebound next year; or to use the Food Services' equipment reserve fund. The second choice would depend on the absence of disasters such as Lowell House's kitchen fire last year or other unexpected breakdowns, he added...