Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Maurice Evans ("The California Comet") McLoughlin, 67, hard-hitting pre-World War I tennis champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...
Despite reports that particles from the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet might damage the Russian artificial moon or deflect its orbit downward, University astronomers seem to feel that there is no danger of such an event. They said last night that the warning by British astronomer A. C. Lovell that the satellite might be destroyed because it lacked atmospheric protection had been misinterpreted...
...part, Bristol was badly hampered by the red tape of the government's Transport Ministry, which had to approve new standards for the government-owned airline's new plane, and in addition ordered exhaustive fatigue tests on the Britannia after the crashes of the Comet jetliner. And BOAC itself made frequent design changes during the long months...
...Russians' jet-fueled ploy had some propaganda value, calling attention to the fact that they are ahead in the passenger-jet field. One side effect: the British, apparently suffering from wounded pride, hurriedly announced that they will fly a revamped Comet II this week from Northern Ireland to Orlando...
Jesuits are encouraged to develop their special talents or interests, ranging from archaeology to automation, from deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many