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...scientific activities have been added. The lunar module will carry on its side special plates designed to detect cosmic rays. Young and Duke will operate a newly designed $2,000,000 electronic camera that can "photograph" ultraviolet radiation from distant stars, galaxies and giant intergalactic gas clouds, as well as the ultraviolet glow round the earth. In addition, the astronauts will set up four remote-controlled grenades that will be fired later by signals from earth and send sound waves through the moon's interior to help determine its structure...
...rest of the division is pretty meaningless. The Minnesota Twins are growing old and ineffective together. The California Angels should come together and win a few games but not enough to challenge the leaders, and poor ol"Ted Williams will struggle home a distant last with the Texas Rangers as he searches for some bonafide major league stars to help out Frank Howard...
Despite the inclement weather, the Crimson played very well, with four of the five Harvard players posting scores under 80. The final team standings, based on the total score of the lowest five golfers from each school, saw Harvard with 390. Williams with 396, and Boston College with a distant...
Enoch Arden. Goodbyes also spawn rites of support. Shallow shipboard friendships can safely end with promises to meet again; everyone knows the promises need not be kept. At farewell parties for friends moving to distant places, "high praise and substantial offerings can be accorded, since there will be no chance for this level of giving to be established as the norm...
...world's 14 million Jews are bewildering. Scientifically speaking, there is no Jewish "race." As Scholar Raphael Patai points out in his book, Tents of Jacob, Jews of one geographical area share physiological traits with their immediate non-Jewish neighbors but much less so with Jews of a distant geographical area. Still, the Jews' long history of wandering as tightly knit communities has dispersed them into a wide range of distinct ethnic groups...