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...when Astronomer Edwin Hubble used shifts in the spectral lines of light emanating from distant galaxies to calculate that the islands of stars are moving at tremendous speeds away from the earth−and from each other−like dots painted on the surface of an expanding balloon. To some scientists, this outward rush of the galaxies suggested an original cosmic explosion...
...first issue of "Trial Balloon," which appeared in yesterday's Gazette, contained news of Harvard personnel policies and features about employees written by staff members in the news and personnel offices...
...Cornets. But the kidding is all in impeccable fun. Alex Guiness, as the seven (or eight) members of the noble D'Ascoyne clan, gets to be knocked off seven (or eight) times by a commoner who has it in for the family. Sipping poisoned port, crashing in a punctured balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin in jail for the one murder he never committed. Bouncing back in his jail cell, though, he chipperly narrates us the story of raucous...
...bottleneck in play on the closing holes finally took its toll on Fitzgibbons' concentration, as he sandwiched a bogey between three doubles to balloon out of contention...
...Brookline is a psych-out course," he explained. "I think that people tended to get discouraged and when that happens you tend to balloon. The rough is as high as a cornfield. If you miss the green a little bit it's like your ball...