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Time may be running out for Star Trek, however, as newer space spectaculars flash into view (TIME, Sept. 1). The series is now in its eleventh cycle in some areas, and devoted Star Trek fans-or Trekkies, as the space-boppers are called-know all 79 episodes as well as Enterprise Skipper James T. Kirk knows his Operations Manual ("Nature and Duration of Mission: Galaxy exploration and investigation: five years"). Thus 16,000 Trekkies who paid to attend last week's Chicago convention, the biggest ever held, have spent considerable time writing SST (Save Star Trek) letters to Paramount...
...hand Harvard certainly doesn't fit the image of the Big Ten school--there are no pep rallies before big games or flash card sections in the stands. But on the other hand, Harvard is far from the image that most people attribute to it--that Harvard students are basically unconcerned with their teams and take a very blase attitude toward sports. The answer lies somewhere in between...
...fires of thy beacons flash high as they burn...
Hiroshima is almost totally rebuilt now, and many of the present inhabitants were not born when the white flash blinded the city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...
Think about this for a minute: exactly 30 years and two days ago people in Hiroshima, Japan, woke up in the morning and saw a huge silent brilliant flash of light in the sky that brought with it a moment later a great, deadly shock force. The flash and the shock came from a bomb, one that an American in a plane had dropped; there days later, 30 years ago tomorrow, another American plane dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki...