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Beyond Pluto. Though Ikeya-Seki is the fourth new comet to be discovered this year, and there are some 1,700 already on record, astronomers are still not sure exactly what comets consist of. For centuries they were objects of excitement and superstition, often feared as precursors of grave and cataclysmic events. Today some astronomers speculate that comets are the debris flung off by larger planets out beyond the earth. The most widely accepted theory holds that a vast cloud completely surrounds the solar system. According to Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory, about 4.6 billion years ago the cloud...
...vote." It was civil rights that gave Nixon trouble in 1960, and it could give him trouble in another national campaign. "We must not compromise on our national civil rights stand [now a strong one]," he proclaimed automatically, but then gave me a harsh stare and scolded, "I have grave questions about the current civil rights leadership...
...magnetic self-contained drama of birth excites everyone, partly because it is man's eternal second chance. Paradoxically, it seems to affirm what it is destined to refute, as one generation's wisdom inevitably becomes the next generation's folly. Without being overly profound or unduly grave, William Goodhart has planted this insight in the spine of his first play. In a rock-solid performance, Henry Fonda not only gives body to a role, but also substance...
...reaffirmed his support for the 1964 civil rights bill and 1965 voting rights law, but admitted to "grave questions about the current civil rights leadership." Now is the time, he said, "for reconciliation not revolution...
...months the stoutly pro-American and pro-European Pinay, still clear-eyed and vigorous at 73, had been insisting that he would run only sur demande, and then only in "the case of grave and dramatic circumstances." The center delegates thought they had such a case in De Gaulle's harshly anti-NATO, anti-Common Market press-conference pronouncements a fortnight ago. But Pinay last week professed to be still unconvinced. If things were all that bad, he asked, why were not Deputies resigning, workers marching in the street? He would run only if assured at least a third...