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Professor Gerard Pieter Kuiper found that Wolf 424 has an unusual "very late M-type" spectrum which indicates that the star is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun. Its apparent magnitude is 11.8, which is about six magnitudes be low the limit of naked-eye visibility. Comparison of the apparent with the intrinsic brightness yielded the distance...
Confederate blood boils at TIME'S comparison of Fascist Franco with Confederate Robert E. Lee. This is the absurd apogee of its consistently biased, frequently inaccurate, reports of the Spanish war. TIME'S glib essay at historical analogy, is shallow, unsupported by historical fact...
...Evanston hospitals showed that of 300 drivers who had been in wrecks causing injury, 24% were intoxicated (at least one part alcohol to 1,000 parts blood). A survey by Northwestern University's Traffic Safety Institute showed that of 2,000 drivers examined, only 4.2% were intoxicated. Comparison of the two figures demonstrated the extent to which alcohol is a factor in traffic accidents...
...your comparison fair; or are there further facts in the Mahoney case which might explain the apparent inequity...
Last week Carleton Beals told the story of the first ten years of his journalistic career. Main exhibits in Glass Houses are not Latin American politics, but the little-known expatriate life of Mexico City. By comparison with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot...