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Before last week's culmination of Voyager's odyssey, a two-day close encounter of the most extraordinary kind, Saturn was relatively unknown. It is a gigantic swirling gaseous ball, mostly hydrogen and helium, that could encompass 815 earths, but even with the best telescopes and the most settled atmospheric conditions, it had never been seen as much more than a fuzzy yellow ringed sphere. Now, in a flash of binary bits across space, it had become a clearly recognizable place under the sun, with its own wonders, surprises and mysteries...
HANOVER, N.H.--The Dartmouth College faculty rejected on Monday a proposal to create a two-day reading period before final exams. The proposal failed because President John G. Kemeny refused to break a 39-39 tie vote...
...cemetery halted the fence's demolition this summer after two days when two groups threatened legal action. Approximately half the fence came down in the two-day period and was replaced with chain link...
...first voters to sample the new Carter were the folks down home. Carter made a two-day tour of the South-time he would rather have invested elsewhere-to try to solidify his besieged base. With the exception of Virginia, the region was for Carter four years ago, giving him 40% of his electoral vote. But a poll by Atlanta's Darden Research Corp. last week of eight states in the heart of Dixie, excluding Virginia, shows Carter and Reagan running even. Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "If Carter does not do better quickly, he's through." Concerned with...
Since then, the badly shaken new rulers of Liberia have worked hard to restore the confidence of foreign governments and investors. Doe made a two-day visit to Tanzania and a four-day tour of Ethiopia as part of a fence-mending campaign among his African neighbors. He has pledged that there will be no more executions of political figures associated with the old regime. The widow of the President, Victoria Tolbert, was released from house arrest, and 38 political prisoners who had been rounded up during the early days of the revolution were freed. Conditions have improved...