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...taking advantage of a free and virtually inexhaustible source of power: the pressure of sunlight. Moving at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) a second, the photons from the sun would exert force on the large sail-just as a handful of sand, thrown against the sail of a toy boat, can push it through the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sailing to Halley's Comet | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Thursday members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation, dressed in Arabic costumes and armed with toy machine guns and a waterpipe kidnapped a conference official from the Sheraton...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Harvard Model U.N. Parties and Debates | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

Wrathful God. What is likely is that the weather, as it has done throughout history, will continue to toy with its would-be forecasters, embarrassing them with rain when they call for clear skies, drought when they predict precipitation. Indeed, the weatherman's plight will probably not change a millibar from that described by the English meteorologist Sir Napier Shaw. Wrote he: "A forecaster's heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger meddleth not with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather: Prediction and Control | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...denounced the "Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July, Amin awarded 2,000 medals to soldiers, civil servants and relatives. Among those honored were his latest wife Sarah, 20, and his son Mwanga, 6, who appeared in an army camouflage uniform, carrying a toy rifle with bayonet. In Amin's sentimental citation, he lauded his wife and boy because "they worked so untiringly with me on the night of the raid on Entebbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: Crime Bulletins from Italy | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...object animation. A dew-eyed puppy puppet--who bears a vague resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock--is brought to life by the tears of a dollmaker who is too poor to buy her sick daughter the oranges she dreams of. The dollmaker sends the puppy to be sold in a toy store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate as a windshield ornament. The rest of the story follows his efforts to get back to the little girl with the oranges that will make her well. Along the way the puppy encounters a sloe-eyed...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: Beyond Bugs Bunny | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

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