Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each pair of stars, Dr. Kraft thinks, is probably a white dwarf: a star that has burned so thoroughly that it now consists chiefly of "degenerate" matter, denser than anything known on earth. This remarkable stuff weighs thousands of pounds per cubic inch. The nova's degenerate core is extremely hot, but its surface is covered with a thin, rather cool layer of normal matter. The other star of each pair is all normal matter, mostly hydrogen, and just about the same weight and size as the sun. In many cases, Dr. Kraft is sure the two stars...
...larger star whirls through its tight orbit, it spins hydrogen off its surface. Some of this gas is attracted by the white dwarf's intense gravitation. When the layer thickens, some of the hydrogen is forced down into contact with the star's degenerate core, which is as hot as the heart of an exploding H-bomb. Suddenly a nuclear reaction races through the hydrogen, turning it into helium and releasing a vast amount of energy. The little dwarf star flares up. many times brighter than its great partner. Once the crisis is over the stars waltz peacefully...
...past two weeks, CORE has been protesting racial segregation in off-campus apartment houses owned by the University of Chicago. The buildings, part of an urban renewal program, provide apartments for both students and non-university tenants...
...susceptibility of modern society, especially American society, to exploitation for Communist ends that Schwarz really bears down. He notes that the number of actual, hard-core U.S. Communists has never been great. But they are surrounded by fellow travelers, sympathizers and "pseudo liberals." Most of these liberals "are to be found in the ivory cloisters of colleges and universities"; they are, in effect, the "protectors and runners of interference for the Communist conspirators...
Ironically, Notre Dame's theology department, theoretically the core of the school, is regarded by all students and most faculty members as the worst department on campus. Staffed entirely by 24 priests, it offers no major-for fear nobody will seek it. But Notre Dame is working toward improvement: some 25 young C.S.C. priests are studying for their S.T.D.s at foreign universities, and Hesburgh hopes to snap up 10 or 15 of them. "We've got our Jacques Maritains coming up," he says...