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Harvard now owns a 60-foot radio telescope operating at Agassiz Station in Harvard. The telescope, built in 1956, has done important work on radio emissions from hydrogen in space that led to a new map of the galaxy drawn from radio data. By now, however, the telescope is one of the smallest in the country still doing original research...
...runoff campaign opened with televised speeches of the two candidates last week, Mitterrand declared war on some of the general's pet policies. He said that as President, he would sign the nuclear test ban treaty, which "would mean canceling next year's South Pacific hydrogen-bomb test, move to heal the Gaullist-created Common Market breach in Brussels, and send French representatives to the Geneva disarmament talks that De Gaulle has long boycotted...
When astronauts eventually soar be yond the moon to explore the distant planets, they will find Jupiter a dangerous place to visit. Even if they manage to withstand the tremendous pull of Jupiter's gravity and survive the frigid atmosphere of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium, they may well perish in the gigantic storms that sweep the planet every decade...
...Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who directs the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, there is only one satisfactory answer. "Like a small star," he says, "Jupiter is still contracting somewhat under the force of its own gravity." As the planet contracts, Kuiper speculates, the compressed and solid hydrogen mantle that envelops its molten core occasionally cracks open, releasing the vast amounts of heat that brew Jupiter's mysterious storms...
...fantasy, he said, depends on the hydrogen bomb. And because of the bomb "a totalitarian system"--composed of the AEC, the CIA, and the Pentagon--"dedicated to the welfare of its totalitarian weapons," has been "superimposed on our democratic system...