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Died. Harlow Shapley, 86, Harvard astronomer who proved that the earth and its solar system lay at the fringes rather than the center of the Milky Way; after a long illness; in Boulder, Colo. Shapley's study of globular star clusters and the changing luminosity of variable stars led to new means of measuring the vast distances across space and helped to disprove the belief that the earth's sun stood at the center of the universe. During the '40s and '50s he focused his gaze on earthly affairs, vehemently opposing McCarthyism, assaults on academic freedom...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Emeritus, died last night in Boulder, Colo...at the age of 86. One of the world's foremost astronomers. Shapley helped develop the "big bang" theory, the current dominant theory of the structure of the universe...
Colorado is also feeling the pinch of oversell. Through deliberate policy, Boulder has preserved the towering "flatiron" slabs to the west that give the city its name, but in all other directions it is bubbling over. Members of a Zero Population Growth chapter in Boulder, which once gloried in the title "Nicest Small Town in the U.S.," recently proposed a charter amendment that would set a ceiling of 100,000 on the population (current pop. 72,000). Though the amendment was voted down, concern is spreading. Denver now has more cars per capita than Los Angeles, and many Denverites...
...solar outbreak came at an unusual time-only about three years after sunspot activity (usually associated with such eruptions) had reached its maximum in what is generally an eleven-year solar cycle. Said Solar Forecaster Robert Doeker at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's observatory in Boulder, Colo.: "It's like getting snow in Atlanta in July...