Word: second
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement was truly cosmic. After examining data transmitted from OAO-II, its second Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-which is still functioning effectively after a year in space -NASA this month declared that "astronomers are contemplating the possibility that the universe may be several times larger than previously believed." And how large is that? Some 40 billion lightyears* in diameter, concluded newsmen after talking to NASA. Breathlessly they reported that the most distant galaxies might be twice and even four times as far away as anyone had expected...
...supertanker Marpessa sailed serenely past West Africa on the second leg of her maiden voyage, an explosion suddenly ripped her hull. Last week the shattered hulk slipped to the bottom about 50 miles off Dakar. Marpessa was the biggest oil tanker to sink to date. Fortunately, she was empty-a narrow escape from what has become a serious threat to the surprisingly vulnerable ocean...
...Ways of Seeing. But Europe's fall shows also suggest a second theme: just how people are seeing here, now. The solipsism reaches hysteria at the Biennale de Paris, which proclaims itself the "manifestation of the young artists," meaning those under 35. The preoccupation this year was style, for its own sake. Noted in a random walk: a Parisian who signs himself Sibaja has sculpted two prizefighters out of red ice who bleed slowly into buckets under their boxing ring while a tape recorder plays crowd screams. They take a week to die. Minimal sculpture everywhere, reaching even into...
Married. Prudence Ann Farrow, 21, Mia's sister and second of Maureen O'Sullivan's four daughters; and Albert Bruns, 26, a teacher of transcendental meditation; in a Unitarian ceremony in Wallingford...
Last week's fight marked the second time that Boxer Pimentel had done battle for the benefit of the school. The first time the school asked him; the second, he volunteered. Says Principal Culotta: "We realize now how concerned people are about education. Once aware of the problem, everyone does his best to help...