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...been detected in the Milky Way galaxy, supergiant stars would have had to explode every two or three years, instead of at their observed rate of one every two or three centuries. An earlier hint was provided by telescopic observations from the ground, which showed that a few older, cooler supergiants are continuously expelling matter at a sedate velocity of 20,000 m.p.h. Perhaps, after many millions of years, they lost enough mass in this way to be classed as dwarfs. Morton's measurements, which involved ultraviolet light that does not penetrate the earth's atmosphere, make clear...
...look. "Arab revolutionaries cannot fail to note the current reactionary tide in the Middle East," said the chief party newspaper in Damascus last week. However the hot heads in Syria might feel, the rest of the Middle East was plainly looking forward to the welcome touch of cooler, quieter political weather...
Actually, individual whites have never held much land in West Africa, hence that region has been spared the embittered struggles between black and white that have cropped up in the cooler, more habitable reaches of the east. Even in the bloody Congo, Belgians blame themselves for much of the chaos and exonerate the Congolese for the slaughters that followed independence on the grounds that it was nothing more than tribal ebullience-long restrained by Belgian rule-expressing itself at the agitation of Communists...
...Kerrville, deep in Texas hill country, 55 miles from San Antonio and 55 miles from L.B.J.'s spread, is the favored watering hole of local millionaires. With evening temperatures 10° cooler than the low lying parts of the state and, more important, a dry climate, Kerrville is highly regarded by those wanting to escape the oppressive humidity of Houston. Watered by the Guadalupe River, the site is crisscrossed with streams, verdant with cypress, oak, pecan and cottonwood. Kerr County has long been a ranching center, and the resort houses often retain the ranch-house look, but with a difference...
...guest in the Kremlin, India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, was cooler still. "We were expecting it even earlier," Shastri remarked...