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...credibility. Last week a number of Washington observers again felt that he had weathered the worst accusations against him, and that the recess would bring him time for recovery. As one of his aides remarked: "If you keep a fire under a boiler long enough, pretty soon you boil all the water out, and finally you burn even the bottom of the boiler. I sense that's what has happened with Watergate...
Although the comet is now visible only as a speck of light in telescopes, solar radiation will boil off gases and dust from the nucleus as it approaches closer to the sun. In the "solar wind," the stream of electrically charged particles that continually emanate from the sun, the material from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked...
Departures. As with the church, the current Jesuit controversy has been simmering for years, but it came to a boil as the Second Vatican Council drew to a close. The society's superior general, John Baptist Janssens, died, and the order convened in 1965 one of its rare "general congregations," both to elect a successor and adjust its ways to the council's rapprochement with the modern world. Jesuit superiors and provincial representatives from around the world converged on Rome. The man they elected as the society's 28th general (to serve, like the Pope, for life) was a career...
Does the battle of the sexes boil down to nothing more than who brings home the bacon? In Austin, Texas, to encourage women to organize locally for child-care centers and improved salaries and working conditions, Women's Lib Spokeswoman Gloria Steinem seemed to be saying so. Said Gloria: "I think Jacqueline Onassis has a very clear understanding of marriage. I have a lot of respect for women who win the game with rules given you by the enemy...
This contest will probably boil down to crucial encounters in the 1000-yd. and 500-yd. free where Harvard's Rich Baughman will try to make a strong comeback from his recent illness to challenge Haydon, and the 100-yd. and 200-yd. free where Crimson captain Fred Mitchell will probably face Campbell...