Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While University officials yesterday would not commit themselves to a specific course of action should the final foreign-aid bill contain a disclaimer provision, they pointed to the earlier fight as a signification of Harvard's feeling...
According to Brown's estimate, the 10,000 cubic parsecs* of space around the sun contain about 1,000 visible stars. Most of them are comparatively small; the smaller and dimmer being the most numerous. But stars that are too small and dim cannot be seen un less they are very near the earth, so their apparent number is low. If they are slightly smaller still, they give no light and cannot be seen...
...primitive gas and dust, many smaller bodies were also formed at the same time. Seven invisible objects somewhat bigger than Jupiter have already been detected by the wobbling motion that they cause in the stars around which they revolve. Dr. Brown estimates that 10,000 cubic parsecs of space contain 12,730 invisible bodies with sizes ranging from one-sixth the mass of the sun down to "earth equivalent"-the mass that the earth would have if its original hydrogen and other gases had not been driven off by the heat of the nearby sun. Small bodies down to "Mars...
Life Zones. Of this enormous heavenly host only the sun's planets are near enough to be seen by reflected light, but most of the rest are probably organized in planetary systems too. Dr. Brown believes that nearly half of these groups contain no central body large enough to be self-luminous. The other systems contain an average of about 50 members each, but nearly all of them are too cold or too hot to support life. Perhaps two planets per luminous star have conditions suitable for life as it is known on earth...
...African Unity met in Addis Ababa last week to ponder "an African solution" to the agonizing Congo rebellion. The session had been called at the request of the Congo, whose controversial Premier Moise Tshombe had come under heavy attack for hiring white mercenary troops-but found himself unable to contain the rebel advances without outside help of some sort. What Tshombe wanted was African troops for police duty in pacified areas in order to free his own harried Congolese army to fight the rebels. As he told the delegates: "Such an arrangement would allow me to dispense with the services...