Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival of Khrushchev and Crony Janos Kadar of Hungary coincided with another journey across international borders. Two young Hungarians, escaping to freedom across the Austrian frontier, lost their feet in a land-mine explosion. A third companion, uninjured, helped his comrades to safety...
...ordered several specific bequests, then granted two-thirds of the remainder of the estimated $800 million estate to heirs, including Princess Yasmin, 10, his daughter by Second Wife Rita Hayworth. Among the specifics: $280,000 and his Chantilly, France, villa to elegant French Fashion Model Bettina, 35, his constant companion since 1955; $14,000 to Sybilla Szczeniowska, 38, a blonde New York fashion designer who met Aly 20 years ago in Cairo; and $56,000 to her Cairo-born son, Marek, 16, a Manhattan private school junior, who recollected &quo;seeing the prince three or four times in my life...
...Inspirational Things, compiled by Audrey Stone Morris (Hawthorn; $4.95). This, the Hawthorn brochure announces reverently, is a companion column to 1,000 Beautiful Things and 1,000 American Things...
Studying the Companion's orbit around Sirius, they proved that its mass is 96% of the sun's, yet it gives 400 times less light. At first they thought that it was an average, sun-sized star that gives less light because of low temperature. But by 1915 astronomers were able to prove that its surface is really hotter than the sun's and gives three times as much light per square inch. If a star's surface is bright but the star as a whole gives off little light, then the only possible conclusion...
Degenerate Matter. Though seemingly incredible, these figures for the Companion have withstood all attacks, and astronomers, particularly Dr. Luyten, have since found many white dwarfs even smaller and denser. The current theory is that they are stars that have burned nearly all their hydrogen, turning it by nuclear fusion into helium and heavier elements. With the hydrogen gone, the star contracts. As its mass concentrates into a smaller volume, its gravitational field increases in power, eventually growing strong enough to compress the material near the star's center into "degenerate" matter whose electrons and nuclei have been pushed close...