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...Exodus-Bay Shore" is to give that part of Long Island its first "pure-gospel" church, and the move is being sponsored by one of the nation's few big made-in-U.S.A. religious groups-the evangelical, expansive (2,250,000 members) Churches of Christ,* which dot Texas, Tennessee and Southern California...
Viewed through the far-sighted optical telescopes of modern astronomy, the great spiral galaxies that dot the depths of space look as stable as anything in the universe. But the view may be a cosmic illusion. Astrophysicists Fred Hoyle and William A. Fowler, from Caltech. told the American Physical Society that galaxies often explode with improbable energy. Even the Milky Way Galaxy, of which the earth and the entire solar system are only a tiny part, may have blown up many times already-and could pop off again...
...spectroscope successfully scanned a tiny dot in the solar disc. Liller stated that the information which the instrument relayed back to earth would be correlated and released in the near future...
...instrument will circle the earth aboard an observatory satellite, OSO II, which will collect data on the sun in two ways. First, it will again concentrate on a small dot in the center of the sun. It will also scan the entire disc of the sun in alternating east-to-west and north-to-south directions. Each complete scan will take about four and one-half minutes...
...Dot Is a Rock. Probably no artists ever followed so severe a technique as the Chinese, and no instrument of art has ever been devised as sensitive as the Chinese brush. In calligraphy, no matter how many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to one convention, "a dot should resemble a rock falling from a high cliff. A horizontal stroke should resemble a formation of cloud stretching 1,000 miles. A vertical stroke should resemble a dried vine stem a myriad years old." It is one of the virtues of the collection that there...