Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Heidelberg, Dr. Harlan Smith of the University of Texas reported that the light from the heavenly body known as 3C-273 pulsates regularly on a 13-year cycle. Not that pulsating starlight is rare, but 3C-273 is not a star. It is a "quasar" (quasi-stellar object) that sends out powerful radio waves as well as light and is believed to be about 1 billion light-years away from the earth. Most astronomers think it is a galaxy in the process of exploding...
...impatient youngster tried to unsnarl the mess by poking at it with a rake. Zap, crackle, pop. The line short-circuited, burned through and fell, sparking and whipping, onto a chain link fence. That was a job for Superman -but he didn't show. Fortunately another stellar hero lived next door, and Scott Carpenter, 38, came to the rescue. While a second neighbor held the wires down with a board, the astronaut laid into the 120-volt cable with a wooden-handled ax, soon cut it free of the fence. Oohed an awed housewife...
Luther's win, his third of the season, was yet another stellar pitching job for Harvard this spring; in 77 innings of play, Crimson hurlers have yielded only 11 runs...
...much the same story in the mile relay, the final race of the day, as another stellar Crimson performance failed to make the record book...
...Crimson ski team now holds fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships at Williams, largely because of stellar performances by two cousins: Jon Chaffe in cross country and Kim Chaffe in the downhill...