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...most spectacular astronomical sights of the century will take place Oct. 21 when a newly discovered comet passes close to the sun. Officials at the Smithsonian astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge made the announcement yesterday...
...Comet Now Visible...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
...with $5,000 lent by his grandfather, formed his own company in 1920 and went on to design World War II's fighting Mosquito and later the Vampire, first jet fighter in the free world to exceed 500 m.p.h., from which he conceived the four-jet Comet airliner, in a brilliant but crash-plagued attempt to capture the passenger market from U.S. planemakers; of a heart attack; in Watford, England...
...good luck, and yellow is the grand color of the ancient empire; pale blue-a funeral color-is used only by unsavvy art directors. A package tipped on its side suggests business collapse, and a half-filled pack of cigarettes conjures up visions of half-empty rice bowls. Because comets are ill omens, British Overseas Airways Corp. has renamed its Comet 4 "Hui Sing," which means "star of wisdom...