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The Ikeya-Seki comet may have seemed a dud to casual observers who were screened from its spectacular passage by assorted weather conditions. It was by no means a disappointment to astronomers. Never before has a comet undergone such detailed scientific scrutiny-from observatories around the world, from specially outfitted...
• PORNOGRAPHY. Is Fanny Hill obscene? No, said New York's highest state court. Yes, said comparable courts in Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts. All of them used the Supreme Court's clearly unclear guidelines, such as whether pornography has "redeeming social interest." Now the learned Justices must...
Two months ago Stuttgart's Institute of Foreign Relations published its latest revised edition of The National An thems of the World. It was outdated even before it went on sale. So fast are new nations emerging these days that the anthems of Africa's two newest, Gambia...
Peter Fuld was a German refugee who had become a Canadian citizen and created a thriving telephone-equipment business in London and Frankfurt. Three years ago, at 41, Fuld died of a brain tumor, leaving an estate estimated at $28 million, plus an exwife, an ex-fiancée, his...
The difference between this first novel and James Jones's From Here to Eternity, to which the publisher compares it, is that Jones had something to say, however gracelessly he said it. Author Linakis settles for Eternity's vacant form: a military milieu, dirty words, laconism parading as...