Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colony of embittered Dominican Republic exiles who cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...
...attention is focused on the problem of which finger you hit the typewriter key with. Wouldn't it offend you? Then why don't you writers realize how boring it is to read books in which, instead of telling about living people, you only describe the square-cluster method of planting potatoes? We want to tell you bluntly that we know better than you do how to milk cows or plant corn, and what we don't know the experts will tell...
...away over the course of several billion years. As heat drops, each gas cloud cools and shrinks. At last, it reaches the critical point where gravitational attraction between its gas particles is greater than their tendency to fly apart. Then the great cloud collapses, forming a galaxy or a cluster of galaxies, each of which contains billions of stars. The galaxies, being immersed in the hot gas, continue to move away from one another. But within their narrow confines, gravitation reigns as supreme as it does on the little planets revolving around their stars...
...steel works of Andrew Carnegie as its nucleus. When Carnegie scrawled the price he wanted on a scrap of paper ($447 million), Morgan characteristically glanced at it briefly, snapped: "I accept." At one time Morgan controlled six banks and trust companies, three life insurance companies, ten railroads and a cluster of huge corporations. He and his associates held 341 directorships in 112 com panies with total resources of $22 billion...
...delegates to the annual regional conference of the World Health Organization in Formosa last week, a must on the agenda was a side trip to a cluster of laboratories in Taipei. The labs are the headquarters of a far-ranging, little-publicized U.S. Navy unit known as Namru-2 (for Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2). What the delegates saw of Namru-2's work was so impressive that they later passed a resolution to accept the unit's standing offer of emergency help in epidemics among Asia's civilian population. As most of the delegates well...