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...club adjoining his $150,000 house in Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb. Because of the many irons he has in the fire, Romney has little time to spend with his attractive family (the Romneys have four children, five grandchildren). To catch up on sleep, he often catnaps in the fold-back bed of his chauffeur-driven Rambler as he spins around Michigan on a round of speeches and meetings...
Dwarf novas are dim stars that have the strange habit of flaring up at irregular intervals-increasing their brightness almost 100-fold. Astronomers have often speculated about these periodic changes, but until Dr. Kraft used the great 200-inch Palomar telescope to follow 20 dwarf novas through many bright and dim cycles, no one was sure what caused them. Using telescope and spectrograph, Dr. Kraft kept track of the novas' changing temperature, light and motion. After 30 months he was able to prove that at least seven of them are double stars. The two bodies whirl around each other...
...former Under Secretary of the Air Force (1957-58), will become president and next in command to "C.R.," who is a vigorous 62. Eastern's pioneering chairman, Eddie Rickenbacker, 71, who lately has been more active on the banquet circuit than in the board room, will probably fold his wings. And somewhere, keeping a weather eye on the finances, will be Laurance Rockefeller, 51, who, as Eastern's biggest shareholder (with 94,000 of the 3,235,000 shares), was the driving force behind the merger. Rockefeller will also be the biggest shareholder in the merged company...
...miles away are the mine shafts and chimneys of the huge copper and cobalt complex that makes secessionist Katanga the envy of its neighbors. For months the United Nations had kept its uneasy peace in Katanga, always hopeful that somehow the territory could be brought back into the Congo fold. Now, for the second time in three months, the U.N. was trying, with no great success, to do the job with guns...
...then there is the last 10 minutes. For the second time the Crimson's switching man to man was effective for three-quarters of the game, only to fold when fatigue and fouls caught up with the starters. In addition, the guards were horrendously slow getting back on defense as the UConns broke three and four men on every play...