Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GERARD LANGLOIS...
...Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris...
...seas on the far side of the moon will keep moon experts theorizing for many years. The seas are really flat, low plains filled with dust or lava. They must have been formed rather late in the moon's history, because few meteor craters pit their surfaces. Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that the seas were made by the impact of asteroids up to 90 miles in diameter, which blasted great holes in the crust at a time when the moon's interior was hot and plastic. Dark lava welled up in the holes...
...Dean Gerard Fountain finds that, "These girls are more serious than the students I went to school with." Dean Fountain is a graduate of Yale. The girls back up this statement with tales of the many weekday hours spent in study. Just why Sarah Lawrence girls take their studies so seriously is difficult to analyze. Certainly progressivism must be given most of the credit, for the importance of education is emphasized and reemphasized...
Although the earth's magnetic field is still something of a mystery, most geophysicists think it is caused by motion of the liquid metal core of the earth's interior. The University of Chicago's Astronomer Gerard Kuiper reasons that if the moon has no magnetic field, it cannot have a liquid core. The Russian observation, he says, backs up his belief that the moon was formed at the same time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner...