Word: systemically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...distant group of stars whose light, analyzed by a delicate photometric technique, indicates that they may be 25 billion years old. One probable consequence of the find: drastic revision of previous estimates that the universe is 7.4 billion years old and our solar system a mere 5 billion...
Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
...intends to push for complete merger of the C. & O. and B. & O., which would create a vast railroad net rivaled only by the Pennsylvania in assets ($2.3 billion) and surpassed only by the Santa Fe in track mileage (11,000). Eventually, Tuohy sees a huge, unified rail system in the East. Says he: "This opens the sluice gates. Wait till we get this merger squared away. I have other ideas already...
...prosperous C. & O., which earned $37,994,000 in the first eleven months of 1960 and has paid a dividend for all years except two since 1899, intends to pump money into the B. & O. system for a badly needed modernization program, will repair or replace the B. & O.'s worn freight cars. All told, Tuohy expects the merger ultimately to save the two lines $46 million a year...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...