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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missile by focusing on it for only a second or so. But the generating apparatus is so bulky that it could not be lifted into orbit; the laser stations would have to be placed on mountaintops to put them above the densest layers of the atmosphere. Even the thin upper layers would cause the beams to shimmer, however, owing to the same phenomenon that makes the light from stars appear to twinkle. The excimer laser beams would have to be bounced off mirrors in very high geosynchronous orbits over the equator, meaning that the mirrors would always hover over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the High-Tech Frontier | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...subsequent Wonder Dogs; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 1940 he and his brother Frank took on an unwanted collie named Pal, which was selected first as a stand-in and then as star of Lassie Come Home (1943). Weatherwax also trained Asta for the Thin Man movies and Daisy for the Blondie series. Devoted to his charges, he kept the cremated remains of bygone Lassies, once vowing, "When I finally go, I'm gonna take those urns and bury them with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Young Georges-Marie, 9, has, as his cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Little Sod the Sioux | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...change." She will make him a worthy Benoir, fit to assume his rightful inheritance of family leadership and at least (pounds)30 million, or kill him in the process. She rages: "You! You will drive me into the grave with those bones! It is ridiculous to be as thin as that! It is idiotic!" His frail physique does not prevent Mama from administering energetic corporal punishment. Castleton, who finds he cannot help loving the ridiculous Dauphin, grows increasingly alarmed: "Christ, she does wade into the poor little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Little Sod the Sioux | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

While the first preseason event, the anniversary show of improvisational group On Thin Ice, was selected not for its novelty but to celebrate the group's start in the Ex one year ago, the second event was a "first" in several ways. Not only did the two evenings of original student films mark the first time that student films had been shown in the space, but it also allowed the Harvard Radcliffe filmmaking classes. However, technical difficulties forced the films to be moved to Sever Hall for one night...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Drama Club Tries to Broaden Scope of Loeb's Ex | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

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