Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time, Harvard had taken the two-length lead which it held to the finish line. Princeton was only three seconds back of Pennsylvania last weekend. Harvard's similar lead over the Tigers before the crab means that next week's confrontation with Penn at Annapolis should be close...
...focus of the demonstration. One of the other three demands--stopping construction on a gymnasium in Morningside Park--has been met at least in part. The other two--ending ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses and dropping punishments for an earlier demonstration--are less important and are close to resolution...
Somewhat belatedly, Astronomer Anthony Hewish, leader of the Cambridge University group that discovered pulsars (TIME, March 15), revealed the positions and the pulse rates of pulsars 2, 3 and 4. One of them blips every 1.27 seconds, another at 1.19-second intervals-close to the 1.34-second period previously reported for pulsar 1. Pulsar 4 pulses significantly faster: every quarter of a second. In addition, Hewish estimated that the fast-pulsing source is only 50 light-years away, compared with the 200-light-year distance he calculated for pulsar...
Most scientists agree with Drake's reasoning, and a slight majority now appears to favor the theory of extraordinary, vibrating white dwarf stars as the probable source of the signals from space. Said Jodrell Bank Astronomer Smith at the close of the Royal Astronomical Society meeting: "It looks as if the little green men are now white dwarfs...
...only two brief transmissions - one during the third manned orbital flight, the other while astronauts are actually walking on the surface of the moon. NASA's official reason for the curtailed use of in-flight TV was that the camera (which weighs only 71 Ibs.) pushed Apollo too close to its weight limitations...