The CCD camera and Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph of the 2.5 m Issaac Newton Telescope are used to obtain high quality spectra of the 6708-A Li-7 resonance doublet in 22 dwarfs with metallicities not greater than -0.7. A mean constant value of Log N(Li) = 2.07 (+ or - 0.1) is found for highly metal deficient dwarfs (Fe/H abundance ratios of

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Using the predictions of the Lynden Bell/Hills model of the energy source of QSO's in which discrete packets of matter (e.g., stars) are converted into radiation near a massive black hole, it is shown how the variability observations of QSO's over long periods may be used to upgrade the Hubble diagram for these objects. In a class of objects of low

New spectra of A78 and A58 at different positions in the nebulae are presented. An abundance gradient is found in A78, extending quite close to the center. Similarly, the nebulous knot near the center of A58 has considerably higher heavy element abundances than the outer regions of this nebula. The ionization state is considerably lower in A58 than

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