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...origin, he explained. "Evolutionary" theory holds that all the matter that now exists was once concentrated in a single mass that may have been no bigger than the earth's orbit. This "primeval atom," whose density must have been something like 2 billion tons per cubic inch, disintegrated 20 to 60 billion years ago. Its matter turned into hot, rapidly expanding gas, and stayed in this condition until about 9 billion years ago. Then the gas began to condense into the billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, that make up the present-day universe...
Five-foot seven-inch guard George Harrington led the first half scoring, mainly with sharp set shots from the outside. He was followed by Griff McClellan with nine points and captain Bob Repetto and Mike Donohue, who sank eight points each...
...Cambridge Board of Appeals yesterday heard the University's petitions for building code exemption to permit seven-foot, six-inch ceilings in the new Leverett House buildings...
Death can be small and cold. It can be a hard black pistol. Or it can be huge and hot; it can be half a ton of giant lumbering animal. Manolete knew death as the animal. A rush of black hide and ripping white horn blurring past an inch from the ankle. A bullfighter is significant because in his important moments he fights and defeats the animal; the animal means death, and in the final important moment the animal must kill...
...Salon de Honor of Chile's National Congress Building, a room Chileans prize as a symbol of the system of representative democracy, a fanatic crowd of card-carrying Communists last week packed every inch of floor and gallery space. Wildly they cheered a group of leaders who promised to "make pacts even with the devil" to achieve their goal: the end of Chile's democracy. Legalized since last August, the Communist Party had come up from underground to meet in the open for its Eleventh National Congress. Cried El Diario llustrado: "It is a shame that the Reds...