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...avenue of investigation has opened in the skies. Three University of Arizona astronomers have spotted a visible star that is located precisely where radio telescopes had detected a pulsar and is flashing at a rate identical to the pulsar's beeps. In all likelihood, they say, the flashing star is actually a pulsar...
There is little likelihood that the Senate will refuse to confirm Hickel when it interrogates him. In U.S. history, only eight Cabinet nominees have been turned down, and Senators have never rejected an incoming President's first choices. Still, Hickel can look forward to some heat. "It'll be good for him," said a member of Nixon's staff. "The trouble with Wally," said another Nixon man, "is that he's never thought about a thing but Alaska." If nothing more, the Senate's hearings should considerably expand Hickel's perspectives...
Despite the dissatisfaction among students and workers, there actually is little likelihood of any new outbreak of disorders on the scale of those in May and June. For one thing, the students lack leadership. Daniel ("Danny the Red") Cohn-Bendit, their principal leader last spring, has been banished from France, and no one has taken his place. The students are now badly splintered into rival groups. When 1,000 militant students met last week in Marseille to form a common front against De Gaulle, they squabbled so badly that they could agree only on one motion-to adjourn. For their...
...greatness of Bach has been recognized for more than a century. But in all likelihood no prior age has better appreciated the true nature of his gifts. Musicologists have brought his works into clearer focus by editing his scores and clarifying their historic and esthetic background. Today's performers, heirs to the Baroque revival of recent decades, have a better sense of 18th century style, and instinctively reject the romantic excesses of the past. The advent of the LP has created a vast new audience for Bach, as it has for other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary...
...benefit. I would suggest that what the University's purse is losing monetarily, the University's students are more than making up for in non-monetary gains. On a pragmatic level, the bus is a) expedient and b) health-preserving. It spares the user two long walks and the likelihood in this weather of his taking sick from those walks...