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...phenomenon. Its sense of disciplined energy appealed to him, and in the various versions of The Cardiff Team, he set forth a compendium of favorite images: the box-kite biplane in the sky, the Tower, a Ferris wheel, a bright yellow bill board for an aircraft-manufacturing firm named Astra and the joyously leaping rugby players...
...niken and other writers like Gerhard R. Steinhauser (Jesus Christ: Heir to the Astronauts. Pocket Books. $1.75) are avidly exploiting age-old yearnings. As the schlock merchants of fiction science, they peddle an old cosmological recipe: simply ad astra, mix feverishly and half bake. Naturally, their theories are highly vulnerable to anyone who, like Ronald Story, takes the time to examine them...
Sometimes the violence began almost playfully, as when the mob swarmed over Japanese-made automobiles and deflated their tires. But then the cars were set aflame. A special target was the Astra Toyota agency, where the entire stock of new cars went up in flames, their fuel tanks exploding with an occasional thud...
Johnson & Johnson has contracted to market the product in the U.S., and Sweden's drugmaking AB Astra has signed up to sell it in Scandinavia. J. & J. will begin a test-marketing program in 1973. Bio-Medical has built a pilot plant in Fairfield, N.J., to make the thermometers and has applied for patents in more than 30 countries...
...growing list of endangered species, Walter Hickel should now add the American movie star (Astra americana). Take Julie Andrews-a feat that many people now claim is hard to do. In the '50s, she was My Fair Lady, a patch of sunlight on the American stage. In the '60s, she starred in the most successful film of all time, The Sound of Music. Ah, but then . . . sprinkled with Disney dust in Mary Poppins, way back in 1964 she began to turn into a pillar of sugar. Her marriage came apart, her "big" movie, Star, was the H-bomb...