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...main ambition is to "work in a businesslike way. I have no desire to play with Cambridge politics," he states, "and if I have to bend with the political winds, I'm going to have tough sailing." So far, these political winds have been faint rustlings, but observes Curry with a shrewd grin, "maybe I'm on an enforced honeymoon...
...only 8% of the world's Catholic population, but they are the free-currency mainstay of the Vatican's finances; they also provide nearly 20% of the world membership in Catholic religious communities. Last week, on the lakeside campus of the University of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind., 1,978 superiors and other officials of religious orders in the U.S. gathered for four days in the largest congress of religious orders in the church's history. They represented a total of 157,000 nuns, 44,000 priests and 8,000 lay brothers...
Blended Light. While a neutron-star might be luminous, it would probably be too small to be seen in any telescope. But Zwicky believes that it will act as a "gravitational lens." The gravitational field around it will be so intense that it will bend all light coming near it. Some rays, passing close, will be turned back on their tracks. Others will be turned less sharply. The result in the telescope's eye will be a faint disk of light made up of small contributions from all the stars in the universe. This blended light should be possible...
...electric arm which Dr. Kessler described was made by International Business Machines Corp. The switches are operated by pressure of the toes. Electric motors supply power to bend and extend the elbow and wrist, to rotate the lifelike, plastic hand and to open and close the fingers and thumb...
...less information to write a general polemic against an entire policy than it does to criticize specific weaknesses in that policy. For in the latter, you are forced to know in some detail what the present policy is. 2. By disagreeing with him, you force the instructor to bend over backwards in grading your fiction lest he seem to penalize you for merely opposing his view...