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...when such stars were formed, a small amount of material was left outside the main body. It gathered into planets whose rapid orbital circling took away from the star most of its energy of rotation. So any star that rotates slowly, says Dr. Struve, is likely to have a brood of planets. Since the whole galaxy contains about 100 billion stars, Dr. Struve calculates that it has 10 billion slow-spinning stars with planets revolving around them. The sun has eight planets (not counting Pluto), but if the average star with planets has only five, there must be 50 billion...
From their sirupy fiction to their slinky fashion ads, the weeklies are put together with but a single thought in mind: the care and catching of men. Thus, unlike such U.S. monthlies as Good Housekeeping and McCall's, most British women's magazines seldom brood over weighty social problems. Explains one of their top executives: "All other magazines turn people outward and away from themselves. Women's magazines deliberately invite the woman to think about herself...
...nursery, little Jim wriggled across the floor as the devil, with a rolled-up sheet for a tail, and easily stole the show from Stanislaus' staid Adam and a sister's Eve. It was a pleasant middle-class childhood until Papa Joyce began dragging his brood on an alcoholic long day's journey into night...
Last week, for the benefit of the London Daily Mail Isaac Foot indulged in some reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family...
...University's purpose is to incubate a brood of college politicians, a year in the Union might be an experience to be desired. It is also probably true that a year together in the Yard would develop more "Class spirit"--if anyone at Harvard had such an unlikely trait as "Class spirit...