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...still rushing outward from the original big bang. The speed of that expansion, astronomers have determined, is decreasing-slowed by the gravitational pull of the galaxies upon each other. What cannot be explained, however, is that the calculated mass of the universe's galaxies is only about one-tenth the amount required to produce that rate of deceleration. Where is the missing mass...
Dale Dover, picked in the tenth round of the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, said he'll "definitely make an all-out attempt" to secure a place on the team when the rookie training camp opens this summer at Camp Milbrook in nearby Marshfield...
Congresses have frequently served as watersheds in Soviet history. At the Tenth Congress in 1921, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy, which for a time allowed the peasants to sell their produce on a free market. At the 15th, six years later, Stalin consolidated his hold on power by purging Leon Trotsky from the party. At the 20th in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered the famed "secret speech" that started the wave of destalinization...
...rival lenders. But when the Chase Manhattan Bank initiated the latest round of interest-rate reductions two weeks ago, other bankers grumbled that it was too much too soon. The Chase sliced its prime rate by a fat ½%, from 5¾% to 5¼%. It was the tenth drop in the prime since June 1969, when it was at an alltime high of 8½%, and the eighth reduction in the past four months. Instead of going along as usual, other bankers reluctantly lowered their prime rates by only half as much, to 5½%. Last week, however...
...TENTH MONTH by Laura Z. Hobson. 286 pages. Simon & Schuster...