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BOSTON--Two prominent American politicans, one an old-timer and one a newcomer, severely criticized President Carter's foreign policies yesterday in separate speeches in the Boston area...
Last June, after four years of patient observing, the researchers finally made the crucial measurement. They employed a new, extremely sensitive computerized clocking device capable of detecting orbital timing changes of only one fifty-millionth of a second. This superaccurate timer revealed that in those four years the orbital period of the objects had decreased a total of four ten-thousandths of a second. That was exactly on the Einsteinian mark. Said Taylor: "We don't claim to have detected gravitational waves themselves, but simply proved they exist...
...meantime the Billy Martin situation has gotten completely out of hand. It moved from the strange to the pathetic to the totally absurd last weekend as the Yankees announced on Old-Timer's Day that Martin would once again manage the team in the 1980 season. It's almost too weird for comment. George Steinbrenner obviously doesn't want to play the heavy, and Martin, apparently in somewhat shaky physical and mental health, wants his job back. Bob Lemon must feel great, and the rest of the club (led of late by Thurman Munson, who has been consistently hot through...
...burglars, who regularly made off with furniture, children's toys, sheets and kitchenware. After a dozen such thefts, Owner Lionel Legras, 50, operator of a local garage, fastened some shotgun cartridges to the inside of a transistor radio and locked it in a cupboard; he wired it to a timer that would detonate the shells 90 seconds after the radio was moved or switched on. Outside, he posted a warning: ENTRY PROHIBITED...
...timer put out a sign for two laps remaining for a guy I'd lapped, then put out the sign for one after I'd gone by him," Sheehan said. "It wasn't until half a lap was left that they fired the gun, and I realized what had happened...