Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although clues provided by 0237-23 may some day fit into a pattern, they have so far only added to the confusion about quasars. Recent radio astronomy measurements indicate that some may be less than a light year (about six trillion miles) in diameter, mere specks in comparison with average galaxies, which contain billions of stars and are 100,000 light-years in diameter. And a new Caltech study suggests that quasars have an immensely bright core which is only a few "light days" in diameter. Yet if the quasars are as far out in space as their red shifts...
Aware of the fact that for many of his students the problems are financial, Becker helps them to find after-school jobs, adjusts the classroom schedule to fit working hours. Students on a 4-to-12 p.m. work shift, for example, are permitted to come to classes from around 10 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon. They are given the regular amount of classwork but granted exemptions from gym and study periods. Some students are allowed to blend daytime class and work schedules, alternating one week on a job with a week of classes. For those in desperate...
...example, during the Korean War and again last year. Yet it was under Martin that the FRB provided much of the stimulus for the 1960-65 boom by expanding credit and increasing the money supply at an unprecedented peacetime rate. It was that ability-and willingness-to fit policy to contemporary needs that won for Martin the confidence of the banking and business community. And in the last analysis it was that confidence, strongly expressed, that all but forced President Johnson to reappoint...
...Antonio Cabinetmaker Alvaro Alcorta was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. At the trial, Alcorta vainly claimed that he had come upon his wife and one Natividad Castilleja kissing in a car; Alcorta admitted that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja...
Hallelujahs Aloft. Having made his decision, McDonnell approached the future the way he approaches a business decision: detached, deliberate, precise. He had already worked out a 50-year plan for his career. Now he juggled the details to fit aviation, deciding among other things "to intern until age 40 before making a serious attempt to set up my own company." Says McDonnell today: "The plan went just about the way it's happened." He earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from M.I.T. ('25), enlisted in the Army Reserve to learn to fly. He remembers "singing hallelujahs...