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...asking freshmen to write letters is that no one knows how many letters the Committee will get. If the number is small, the Committee will be able to comply with most of the requests. But if the Committee is flooded with letters of preference, it will become impossible to assign freshmen according to their wishes and still preserve a roughly equal distribution in the Houses between private and public school graduates, academic and athletic stars, and other categories. The Administration will be put in the difficult position of having to weed out the iflmsier reasons for requesting a House...
While strict interpretation of Hubble's law would place the farthermost quasars more than 8 billion light-years from the earth, Schmidt refuses to assign a specific distance for any beyond the closest: 3C 273. "We do not know that Hubble's law applies at cosmological distances," he explains. "All we can really say is that if the universe is 10 billion years old, then light from the farthermost quasars has been on the way to us for more than 8 billion years. When the light we see today left the farthermost quasars, the earth and the solar...
...none too soon. At the site of the nosed-in plane, police found a hastily buried box. What that box contained the police refused to say, but whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate...
...says Manuel Perez Guerrero, Venezuela's skeptical Minister of Mines: "That's something that the companies will have to prove." Anyway, the Venezuelans seem willing to sell less oil for more money. In the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), they have been leading a campaign to assign production quotas in order to cut the worldwide glut of oil and thus strengthen prices...
Abruptly, the ground rules had changed. Some 3,500 combat marines from Okinawa landed to secure Danang Airbase. Advance units of the 173rd Airborne also streamed in. One of the most significant U.S. moves was to assign U.S. planes to bomb and strafe Viet Cong units in South Viet Nam itself...