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They are: Joyce Backman, English; Susan L. Baker, History; Marie DePuis Bardos, English; Alice Cooper, History and Literature; Carol Kirsch Dietz, History and Literature; Joan P. Friendly, Social Relations; Diana Frothingham, Romance Languages and Literatures; Rebecca Garrison, History and Literature; Joy Mambuechen, Romance Languages and Literatures...
Robert Lavzer '53 and Elizabeth Hubbard '55 are starred in the cast, which also includes Winifred Hare '56, Mary Arnold, lina Backman '56, Chris Beels '53, Donald Stewart '53, Richard Eder '55, Peter Judd '54, Paul Matisse '55, and Peter de Brant...
...else has confirmed Lipman's finding, and scientists have remained skeptical. One reason is that most modern physicists believe that cosmic rays and short-wave light rays (particularly ultraviolet) would destroy any life passing through interstellar space. Professor Backman's hypothesis attacks this objection...
...this World. Backman believes it very unlikely that life originated on the earth; he thinks it more probably started in the more favorable atmospheres containing methane and ammonia gases which surround planets such as Jupiter, Venus and Mars. From them, he says, living organisms may have been transported to the earth by meteorites or by the propulsive power of the sun's rays...
...Thus, Backman believes, organisms riding on cosmic particles or meteorites might fly safely through celestial space. He admits they would meet a great hazard when they hit the earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric friction would heat the particles or meteorites enough to destroy all organisms clinging to them. But he believes that the atmosphere may tear the organisms away from their carriers before they get too hot. Any such free-floating bacteria which came in on the earth's dark side, shaded from the sun, might drop safely to earth. Q.E.D...