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...coun-try, 'tis of thee...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Ring-a-Ding-Ding | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...major rock concerts, these listings will also alert you to lesser known, more talented rock and sometimes jazz performers who rarely get the attention they deserve. Honest-to-goodness folkies and bluegrass players have more musical talent than all of Alice Cooper's cobras laid end to end. 'Tis better to overlook a multimillion-making electronic group than an exciting unknown playing a small club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Jazz | 9/27/1973 | See Source »

...Thank you for the coverage of my hypothesis concerning the possibility of a space probe from the star Epsilon Boötis [April 9]. It is not claimed that any scientific evidence exists for the presence of such a space probe, nor that my recent paper published by the British Interplanetary Society is a work of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1973 | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...home is Epsilon Boötis, which is a double star. We live on the sixth planet of seven-check that, the sixth of seven-counting outwards from the sun, which is the larger of the two stars. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planet each have one. Our probe is in the orbit of your moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Message from a Star... | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...position of each echo in the sequence of echoes. Plotting the points determined by those coordinates yielded no recognizable pattern. But when Lunan reversed the axes, he got a striking result: a collection of dots that looked to him like a sky map of the constellation Boötis (pronounced boh-oh-tis). Only the star Epsilon Boötis (actually a double star system whose members are popularly called Izar and Pucherrima) was significantly out of place. But Lunan had a ready explanation for that displacement. He says that it may well have been the space probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Message from a Star... | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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