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...centuries, measuring time was simple. A day was one full rotation of the earth, and a second, the smallest unit needed, was 1/86,400th of a day. But as scientists' standards became more exacting, they were bothered by the fact that the earth's rotation fluctuates slightly from day to day and slows one second a century as tides and other influences slow the earth's spin. Such tiny variations become important in space-age problems. Example: plotting the position of a long-range missile, where widely separated stations have to coordinate their observations within millionths...
...parks, and fireworks sprayed the night sky. Many a tourist assumed that the celebrations had something to do with the Big Four conference. But, at least to Genevans, this was something just as important: it was the 450th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, in Picardy, and the 400th of Geneva University, which he founded...
...days the once great University of Jena, where Schiller and Hegel taught and Schopenhauer and Karl Marx studied, would celebrate its 400th birthday. The East German Communists were determined to make the most of the occasion. Under banner headlines last week, the Neues Deutschland carried an article urging the faculty on to greater and greater efforts in behalf of the "socialist reform" of the university. Among the signatures at the bottom was that of the university's rector, 63-year-old Josef Hämel. But on the very same page the paper carried a news item of quite...
...Lest the American League be overlooked, Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams walloped his 400th home run in a game with the Kansas City Athletics, then expressed his pleasure by spitting at the assembled writers in the press box. Just in case it was misunderstood, Ted repeated his hit-and-spit performance a few days later. Reaching automatically for their record books, the sportswriters credited Ted with a new major-league record for public expectoration...
...Jesuit-run high schools, colleges and universities (69, with an enrollment of 122,418) gathered in some 150 U.S. cities and towns for special Masses and breakfasts in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola. For U.S. Roman Catholics it was the high point of the Ignatian Year - the 400th anniversary of Loyola's death. Since last July 31, in churches, chapels and mission stations all over the world, Roman Catholics have been honoring the memory of one of the great creative innovators and proselytizers in Christian history...