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...steel sheets, each etched with a message conceived by Astrophysicist Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Designed to inform extraterrestrial visitors or future inhabitants of the earth about the LAGEOS mission, the message shows three maps of the earth, depicting the continental drift that the satellite will help observe. The uppermost of the maps shows the continents as they are thought to have existed 225 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined. The middle map is a picture of the planet as it exists today and indicates the satellite's launch site in California. The lowest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Golf Ball in the Sky | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...ticket puncher recommends two pornographic films, The Devil in Miss Jones, and The White Rainbow, but she's generally in-different to movies. I leave her mixing and downing endless shots of soda and worcestershire sauce in the uppermost of a stack of miniature paper cups. She gets a kick out of the way it fizzes. Lawrence Welk flickers on the T.V. set in her booth...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Zone for Tremulous Flanks | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

...Western Europe. But there was room for optimism in Brezhnev's call for "a further development of military detente." He added that "a priority goal in this regard is to find ways to reduce armed forces and armaments in Central Europe without diminishing the security of anyone ... Uppermost in our mind is the task of ending the arms race and achieving tangible results in disarmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Festive Finale to the Helsinki Summit | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...dismissed as musings on the sordidness of some of life's more desperate characters if the novel did not manage to illuminate the wider question of the way all men need women. Mutt is the masculine principle in its surly, street-brother aspect. For him pride seems uppermost-the pain is mainly hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Really the Blues | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Then the legacy of peace suddenly became uppermost in Nixon's mind, and in the minds of all these men. Haig, Kissinger and the others wanted to save that much for Nixon. If there was to be an epitaph, Nixon wanted it thus. Kissinger emerged to tell the world that American foreign policy stood unchanged. It would go on, just as America was going on. On Tuesday evening Nixon was coming to grips with hard reality. He called Kissinger five times on the phone. He talked about his position: what would happen in the world, the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Trying to Ensure an Epitaph | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

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