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Stone was not exaggerating. Within a few days, Voyager had taught scientists more about Uranus than they had learned in the entire 205 years since it was discovered by Amateur Astronomer William Herschel. The spacecraft detected a tenth ring and ten tiny, previously undiscovered moons and discerned craters and other surface features on the five large moons that until now had been seen only as featureless spots of light through telescopes. It observed a reddish-brown haze at the planet's north pole and tracked cloud formations as they passed over the middle latitudes. The movement of the clouds seemed...
Whatever happens on the substance of foreign policy, 1985 will be a year of heavily symbolic anniversaries. Some are unhappy, signifying American defeat or continuing dilemmas. The U.S. will scarcely be inclined to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon in April, or the 40th anniversary of the Yalta Conference next month. However little the outcome was intended, at least by American negotiators, that conference led to the division of Europe between Western and Soviet blocs that plagues international relations to this...
Nobody mentions it, but this funny and harrowing play takes place in a Dallas suburb on the tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The coincidence of dates sends Home Front aloft toward political metaphor. Dad may be every "reasonable" statesman who led the U.S. deeper into Viet Nam; Mom and Sis could be every uncommitted American woman, worried sick about her boy or her beau, but hoping against all evidence for the best. And Jeremy may not be kidding when he says that in Viet Nam "I died." Alive or dead, he is the twisted ghost of every...
...Deputy Defense Minister last September, it was widely assumed that he had fallen out of favor with the Kremlin. The first official indication of his new standing came in an obituary for Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, which was published on Dec. 22. Ogarkov's name appeared in the tenth of 17 rows of official signatures. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "He must be in about a third-echelon position...
...predicted nightmares to happen. By now the tension had reached its peak. "I always had the feeling," he recalls, "that at any second something would erupt." Foremost in his mind was the realization that at Munich in 1972 the Israeli athletes had not been seized until the tenth day. "I carried a calendar around in the center of my skull," he says. Crises, small and large, occurred by the hour. The man Ueberroth had picked to climb the towering steps of the Coliseum to light the Olympic flame, former Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, developed shin splints. Three times Ueberroth...