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...course as completely out of our ordinary field of interest as Soc. Sci. 8 or who were grateful for the opportunity of acquiring some background in world history with the aid of Soc. Sci. 1 would regret the denial of this alternative to others. Dorothy Balogh '64, Sondra Gamow...
McCullough '65, of Comsteck Hall and Tampa, Florida, art and layout board chairman; Soudra B. Gamow '64, of Comteck Hall and Teaneck, N.J., cierk; and Thomas M. Bettridge '63, of Adams House and Waterville, Ohio, publicity and competitions director
...extension catalogue of more than 1,000 courses and seminars is a sort of intellectual Burpee's. Poring over this document, Angelenos can find anything from mortuary science, avant-garde French theater and "Values of Contemporary Man," to applied combinatorial mathematics taught by George (One, Two, Three . . . Infinity) Gamow and "Flights of Reality" as charted by Novelist Erskine Caldwell. The catalogue has revolutionized cocktail chatter from Bel Air to Beverly Hills...
...shift in frequency of light coming from a great distance indicates that the Universe is continuously expanding, according to Gamow. This phenomenon, the so-called "red shift," is analogous to the change in frequency of a locomotive whistle, as one listens to a train rushing...
Astronomy has been more successful in predicting the probable origin of plants, Gamow said. Working independently, Kant and Laplace formulated a "nebular hypothesis." According to this theory, matter with very high angular momentum formed into a ring around the sun. Subsequently, it condensed into the planets...