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Terse Announcement. The session lasted 4½ hours, making it the longest so far. Outside, the day changed from a bright, clear November morning into a raging sandstorm, but inside the tent the negotiating continued. At one point, Yariv walked over to the Israeli tent within the U.N. compound, to telephone Jerusalem. Later, both Yariv and Gamasi meandered out of the U.N. tent and talked earnestly together for a long time, as clouds of desert sand swirled around them. Finally, the conference ended with the terse announcement that the talks would continue the next...
...detectors, made repairs and prepared to take their first good look at Comet Kohoutek. The Thanksgiving Day walk in space, longer by 3 min. 2 sec. than the record jaunt of the Skylab 2 astronauts, marked an auspicious beginning for a historic journey: the last and, NASA hopes, longest (84 days) of the three Skylab missions...
...waned sharply since the moon landings, the U.S. is now engaged in perhaps the most ambitious exploration of the solar system since the start of the space age. At Cape Canaveral, NASA last week was preparing for the launch of the Skylab 3 mission, which may become the longest manned space flight. An unmanned U.S. craft, Pioneer 10, is closing in on Jupiter after a voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus and later will provide the first closeup...
...beginning to show. The onetime 25-mile hikes have been cut to 15. He often drives where he once would have walked. But the startling blue eyes are as keen and alert as ever. So, too, is the intellect of William O. Douglas, 75, who last week became the longest-sitting Justice in the Supreme Court's history, surpassing the 34 years and 195 days served by Stephen J. Field...
...find enough footballs the past ten seasons to become a formidable small-college football power. Since John Merritt and his entire coaching staff moved from Jackson State a decade ago, the Tigers have won 90 games and lost only 13. Going into last weekend with the nation's longest winning streak (14 games), they seemed headed for a perfect season and a chance to win their first small-college national title...