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Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
...earned A grades in all courses, all four years; it was the first such scholastic record established at the University of Nevada in 17 years. Last week at commencement, the eyes of 227 classmates were on blind Bonifacio as he received Nevada's highest scholastic honor, the Herz Gold Medal...
Backside To. After 30 years of complicated experimenting, Herz (who makes his living as an accountant) decided that the earth rotates faster than its oceans and atmosphere. Therefore, the inertia of water and air produce currents that appear to move in the opposite direction. Herz concluded that, since the important (in his opinion) air and ocean currents of the planet do, indeed, move uniformly eastward, the earth must be moving westward...
Oceans apart (one man was in Berlin, the other in Buenos Aires), two amateur astronomers last week had independently decided that Copernicus had everything inside out and backwards. The earth, Germany's Valentin Herz explained, does not revolve from west to east; it spins in the opposite direction. Argentina's Antonio Duran Navarro had an even more novel idea. Says Navarro: "The universe, 8,000 miles in diameter, is contained within the earth...
...Only an illusion, explains Herz. Actually, he says, the sun is much closer to the earth than most people suspect; in fact, it is probably somewhere near the South Pole. What people see in the sky is not the sun, but its "reflection," cast on the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, the earth, according to Herz, rotates more slowly than is generally believed-perhaps as slowly as one revolution every 28 days. Since the dawdling sun's "reflection" whips around the earth every 24 hours, it's not very surprising that people have been confused all these years...