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Sunburned and smiling. Queen Elizabeth arrived at the port of Darwin in Australia's remote Northern Territory, clearly enjoyed an easygoing interlude in her Commonwealth tour Down Under. At a luncheon aboard the royal yacht Britannia, Elizabeth and Philip entertained 20 guests, among them a full-blooded aboriginal from the local Rights Council, who departed happily with his souvenir menu but wanted to know just one thing: "What was that stuff that looked like water but didn't taste like it?'' That stuff, someone explained, was a martini...
Died. Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 75, British theoretical physicist, head of the standard-setting National Physical Laboratory from 1938 to 1949, Charles Darwin's grandson, cousin of Pioneer Eugenicist Sir Francis Galton, and an outspoken advocate of eugenics himself; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England...
Theology of Space. Christian theologians insist that there is no basic conflict between religion and science?and a lot of scientists agree. They are convinced that if the Christian faith managed to assimilate Darwin there are few other scientific discoveries it cannot handle. Science's function is to describe the nature and phenomena of life?and leave the description of its purpose to religion. Says the University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby: "Science and religion are not in conflict, nor are they in full cooperation. They are fulfilling very different needs...
...Crimson, coming after a 39-6 loss the the year before. It was the third win over the Elis in four years and the title, shared with Columbia, was the first since 1919. The famed Harvard line, led by seniors Pete Hart, Bob Boyda, Bill Swinford, and Darwin Wile, held Yale to a meager 91 yards rushing...
...sections dealing with subjects in a specific historical setting. One treats of Greek education in antiquity, early Chinese civilization, and other pre-Newtonian subjects. The other slips into a discussion of specifically modern crises and attitudes in science; Pascal and Maxwell give way to Bohm, Schrodinger, and Charles Darwin A long and careful piece on Einstein near the end of the first volume signals the shift from traditional to contemporary concerns. At the close of the second is a melange of little treatises on comets, albatross and so forth, which will be read by anyone who has enjoyed what came...