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...Luyten does not know definitely the size or mass of his latest white dwarf, but he believes that it weighs at least ten tons, or 20,000 lbs., per cubic inch. It could conceivably weigh as much as 1,000 tons per cubic inch, in which case a chunk of star no bigger than a grapefruit would weigh more than the 84,000-ton Queen Elizabeth...
...Pacific Fleet's chief of staff to Hawaii's Congressman Daniel K. Inouye. To pay Hoshin's entire expenses for the next four years, the McCain has already installed an ice cream machine with proceeds ($120 a month) earmarked for his education, along with a big chunk of the ship's bingo profits. Says Hoshin: "It is much too wonderful to explain...
Premium Prices. The U.S. has traditionally bought the biggest chunk of its sugar from Cuba, about 3,000,000 tons of raw sugar a year. This is more than half of Cuba's total exports and about one-third of U.S. needs. The rest is supplied by domestic beet-and cane-sugar producers (53%) and by 15 other nations under annual quotas. To all of them...
...valor, but Stewart chooses the hard way. The demolition unit touches off the field and moves out with four trucks, a quantity of dynamite and-combat veterans will relish the realism here-a beautiful Chinese refugee girl. As they rumble through menacing mountain country (ably portrayed by a forbidding chunk of Arizona), Stewart shambles, stammers, scuffs his feet and advises the girl (played by Lisa Lu, a onetime Honolulu Advertiser reporter) that he finds China baffling. The girl, a Radcliffe graduate, replies with a not particularly scrutable line, possibly cribbed from Philosophy I: "There are too many...
...creek. The director and scriptwriter seemed determined to reduce Mark Twain's Huckleberry as rapidly as possible to the sort of fruity mush the customers are accustomed to. Most of the major episodes of Huck's hegira are drastically cut or dropped outright. And to chunk up the hole that is left, there is enough conventional "dingnation and sentimenterin' "-not to mention some moony tunes by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane-to provoke the full penalty prescribed by the author: "Persons attempting to find a plot in this narrative will be shot...