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...other groups. Last year's 34-city Zeppelin tour of the U.S., arranged by Grant, earned an estimated $4 million for the group. To sweeten those figures-and his own income, estimated at $500,000 a year or more-the mammoth manager last week announced the birth of Swan Song, Led Zeppelin's own record company. With Grant as president, Swan Song may prove to be only a prelude...
With no boat claiming a monopoly on trouble, Sayula II recovered from her dunking in the Indian Ocean well enough to take the lead going into Rio. She is a production-line Swan-65, skippered by Mexican Millionaire Ramon Carlin. Adventure, a British navy cutter that has changed crew in every port of call to give more sailors "adventure training," is a distant second...
...found. Never mind that it is New York's oldest performing arts complex, founded in 1861. No matter that in its first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point for the arts in New York City; the Depression and a decline in the surrounding neighborhoods had turned the institution...
...Spook, Lux, DuWatt, and Swan...
...theory is correct, there could be countless black holes among the billions of stars in every galaxy. But if no light or other radiation can escape from the bizarre objects, how can astronomers prove that they really exist? The answer may lie in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan), where scientists are now almost certain that they have located a black hole. Its presence was hinted at in 1971 by the first earth-orbiting X-ray satellite Uhuru, which detected a strong and widely fluctuating flow of X rays from Cygnus. Scientists suspected that the radiation source, which they named Cygnus...