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After studying nearly 100 years of star photographs from the University of Heidelberg, Dr. Harlan Smith of the University of Texas reported that the light from the heavenly body known as 3C-273 pulsates regularly on a 13-year cycle. Not that pulsating starlight is rare, but 3C-273 is not a star. It is a "quasar" (quasi-stellar object) that sends out powerful radio waves as well as light and is believed to be about 1 billion light-years away from the earth. Most astronomers think it is a galaxy in the process of exploding...
Uncomfortable Memory. As they seemed to approach the brink-and the really hard bargaining this week-both Bonn and Paris pulled short. "The struggle should not be taken so seriously," said Ludwig Erhard in a speech at Heidelberg University. "There will be no quarrel among friends." In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said that there was no question of "France's determination to pursue European unification in the twin economic and political spheres." And yet with De Gaulle in the picture, one could never be sure. There was an uncomfortable memory of Christmas past...
...earned a B.H.L. (Bachelor of Hebrew Literature), and gone on to get a B.A. from the University of Cincinnati. He was ordained in 1923, but instead of taking a pulpit he took off for Germany. Shifting from university to university in the continental manner, Glueck studied Eastern lore at Heidelberg and Berlin, got a Ph.D. at Jena with a formidable thesis entitled Das Wort Hesed im alttestamentlichen Sprachgebrauche (The Word Grace in Old Testament Usage). Then he returned to Berlin to study Assyrian and Ethiopic. He was already feeling that the archaeology of the Bible would be his life...
...brilliant and valuable band of scientific immigrants† who fled Central Europe to escape Hitlerism. Wigner came to the U.S. from Germany in 1930. That same year, Mrs. Maria Goeppert Mayer, who shared the other half of the physics prize with Professor J. Hans D. Jensen of Heidelberg, came to the U.S. from Germany...
What saddens some Germans even more than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...