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...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...
...prompt action on his entire package, but with Congress heading toward adjournment in early summer, one Capitol Hill insider prophesied: "It doesn't look as if there will be a helluva lot of legislation coming out of this message this year." Chances for action this year are dimmest for Kennedy's most meaningful and controversial proposal-to cut the floors out from under bulk commodity and farm-product rates. Prospects are much brighter for early enactment of the two proposals sure to prove popular with lobbyists and voters alike-scrapping the transportation tax and handing out millions...
About the only way that McCormack could fail to get the job would be if the Kennedy Administration were to go all out in opposing him-and that was the dimmest sort of possibility. As it happens, Jack Kennedy and John McCormack, both natives of Massachusetts, have never been very friendly, either politically or personally. But McCormack worked hard for President Kennedy's programs, with the single exception of the Administration's aid-to-education bill, which he opposed because it did not include assistance to parochial schools. There is some feeling that Roman Catholic McCormack...
...Minnesota by calling him a "stellar mortician" because of his passionate interest in dying stars. Luyten does not mind the ribbing; the faint pinpoints of light that he studies are the end products of stellar evolution and hold many secrets of the universe. Recently, Astronomer Luyten found the dimmest star yet: a minuscule "white dwarf that emits 50,000 times less light than the sun, yet probably contains an equal or greater mass. "This one," he says, "looks to be at the end of the line...
...eyed, haggard witness strode into the House Caucus room, two rows of standees in the rear strained forward to glimpse at the unwilling star of TV's dimmest hour. Charles Lincoln Van Doren folded himself uncomfortably into the witness chair, gulped some water, then stripped away the last layer of illusion separating him from the shills. "I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years," began Van Doren in a remarkable confession...