Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satellites in equatorial orbits, made possible by the mobile laboratory, will be able to gather now information on the earth's ionosphere. In particular, the astronomers hope to determine whether or not man-made waves leak out into space...
...meeting in Victoria, campaigning Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was interrupted by a woman who asked what he proposed to do for young married people. "Madam," Menzies shot back, "I gather you are neither young nor married...
...course, the visually-oriented student can always associate with others of the same bent, but before this year there was no logical place for people interested in art as creators or simply appreciators to gather. As a result, there has been relatively little communication among Harvard's artists. This has prevented them from exchanging ideas and information and has drastically confined the range of criticism they receive...
Dirty Snowballs. Whipple is the author of the "dirty snowball" theory of comets. He believes comets form, molecule by molecule, out of frozen gases beyond the outermost planets. They pick up bits of dust and start drifting ever so slowly toward the distant sun. When they gather speed as they approach the sun, their surface gets hotter, turning some of the frozen gas to vapor and freeing some of the dust to form the comets' glowing heads and tails. When an old comet disintegrates, it leaves bits of fluff to wander in space...
...rooters were on hand, and one fan got so excited that he drove his Cadillac onto the field and rammed it into the goal posts until they finally fell down. Every evening, outside Jack the Barber's one-chair barbershop on Bunker Hill Street, scores of youngsters gather to ogle the neighborhood heroes, talking football inside. They wheedle and whine until Star Townie Halfback Nippy Nolan agrees-as he always does-to perform the stunt for which he is famous all over Charlestown. Crouching low taking a deep breath, he leaps up and cracks his head against Jack...