Word: heating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founded the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, has been with the Houghton Library since its beginning. "Before the Houghton was built." he recalls. "the rare books and manuscripts were being kept in Widener Library in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A Jackson, curator or the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library the temperature would be a minimum...
...then he said. Look. I've got another idea. Come on back in the library. We went back into Widener and sat down in the heat and he said. I had an old aunt who died and she left me some money. And you know, I really don't need it." Houghton gave Harvard a million dollars and the library opened in his name in February...
...when Palestinian guerrillas forced the jetliner to land at Damascus (see box). Obviously worried by the furious international reaction, the Syrians quickly released 99 of the 101 passengers, among them four Israeli women. To satisfy the guerrillas' sympathizers, however, Syria might hold the Israeli men until the political heat dies down. Whether Israel's patience will last that long is another question. At week's end, there was a reminder to Arab governments of Israeli strength when the first of 50 U.S. Phantom jets began arriving at bases near Tel Aviv...
...more disappointed than Nobel Laureate Harold Urey, 76, when the 55 Ibs. of lunar samples brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts turned out to be igneous or heat-formed rock, possibly of volcanic origin. Long a champion of a "cold" moon-the theory that it has never had a molten core like the earth's-the University of California chemist sadly admitted that he could have been wrong. The moon, he conceded in the face of the rocks, might be hot, or geologically active, after all. "Poor old fellow," said one of NASA's younger geologists several...
EIGHT or ten times each year, the southeast coast of the U.S. is struck by hurricanes. Born over the warm seas of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, these large cyclonic systems result from a peculiar blend of heat, winds, atmospheric pressure and moisture. Anywhere from 100 to 800 miles across, they rage north toward Cuba or Florida, assaulting everything in their path. Usually, however, they dissipate before they do too much damage, or veer out to sea. Only one out of four hit the U.S. They are ordinary enough so that they are systematically named, always after women-Beulah...