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Monkey Business. Why are the galaxies receding? Some cosmologists have suggested an enormous explosion that blew all the matter in the universe away from a common center. The chief thing wrong with this theory is that the galaxies are moving too fast; simple calculations show that^ they would have had to start their motion at a point so close in time that the whole universe would turn out to be younger than such minor parts as the stars and the earth...
Real oldtime baseball fans have no trouble remembering a buoyant, carousing young man of 24 who blew into the majors from the Nebraska plains in 1911 and promptly won 28 games with the Philadelphia Phillies, a freshman record that has never been approached. Grover Cleveland Alexander, with fireball, fast curve, boundless self-confidence, and a big wad of chewing tobacco tucked in the corner of his grinning mouth, hit the National League like a meteor, and managed to keep his big-league glow for 20 years...
Wilder claims that "The Post" reporter blew to monstrous proportions an offhand remark he had made and said he'd just as soon decline comment on the whole business...
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From these carefully prepared positions diehard North Korean soldiers poured fire onto the advancing cavalrymen. Red mines blew the treads off U.S. tanks and convoys were held up under fire for hours at a time. Air and artillery support could not take all the burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough...