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...Mexico, when he heard the news about the $78,000 prize. "Somebody has made a mistake," he insisted. When he was finally convinced, he delayed meeting reporters until he had completed his day's work: carefully checking his latest plantings, including a new type of "triple dwarf" wheat...
...like a reverent tourist at Lexington and Concord or the Statue of Liberty. At the end of the dirt road which climbs about a mile through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 66, has now lived in the U.S. longer than he did in Poland. At both terminals he has borne witness to the Jewish catastrophes that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in which he writes. And yet within this spare grandpaterfamilias still resides the spirit of a young Hasid, whose nights were animated by ghosts leaping about the Sabbath candles, inanimate objects given life by the Evil One and the immanent...
When they analyzed the resulting readings, Kemp and Swedlund could scarcely believe their eyes. The figures indicated that the strength of the white dwarf's magnetic field was somewhere between 10 million and 30 million gauss (v. only about one-half gauss for the earth's and 100,000 gauss for the strongest fields detected around ordinary stars). Indeed, if a spaceship ever came within 1,000,000 miles of the star, it would be hopelessly stalled by its magnetic field. Still unconvinced, Kemp and Swedlund considered other factors-stray molecules in interstellar space, for example -that might...
There are implications of the discovery that go beyond the white-dwarf theory. Since the discovery of pulsars three years ago, most astronomers have come to agree that the strange signal-emitting objects are in fact neutron stars-dying stars that according to theory have collapsed with such force that all that remains is a ball of neutrons as small as ten miles across. With the help of Kemp's new technique for detecting distant magnetism, astronomers may now be able to substantiate their pulsar theories. If pulsars are indeed neutron stars-objects even more dense than white dwarfs...