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...Harvard Observatory in this capacity of announcement agency for observatories in the Western Hemisphere, were Van Biesbroeck's finding of a star with the lowest known candle power; Luyten's finding of a pair of white super-dense dwarf stars; the discovery of comets by observers in Finland and New Zealand; and the discovery by Kuiper o fan atmosphere of methane and ammonia on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn...
...tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok...
...Politics of Labor. The congress planned to map its policies within a fortnight. Two deep issues threatened international labor unity: ¶Sir Walter Citrine, in a speech of "controlled fury," fought a Soviet proposal to invite delegates from ex-enemy countries, i.e., Rumania, Finland, Bulgaria, who would presumably always support the Soviet delegation. French, Indian and Polish delegates backed Britain. Russian Delegate M. P. Tarasov flatly rejected the "extremely unpersuasive" arguments of "Comrade Citrine." Strongest Soviet backer turned out to be fiery Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the potent Confederation de Trabajadores de America Latina. The capable Mexican labor leader, having...
Hungary and Finland were under Red Army control. Even Czechoslovakia, which had long been Russia's friend, was threatened with the incorporation of its only liberated province, Ruthenia, into the Soviet Ukraine...
There was the stubborn fact of Russia's entrenched power through half of continental Europe from Finland to Greece. Did Russia mean to exclude her allies completely from this sphere...