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...FIRST complete biography of Herbert George Wells comes at no better time. With the comet Kohoutek whispering across the winter skies, and new visions of apocalypse conveniently centering themselves around its strange apparition, science is experiencing one of its cyclical, popular questionings. While Kohoutek harkens back to one of Wells's more obscure works, In The Days of The Comet, another more recent scientific popularization revives what was a major issue in Wells's life and works. That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there...
...McGeorge Bundy's leadership at the Ford Foundation by making Bundy dean. I would not be so presumptuous. I would hardly be the one to tell so expert a Faculty as ours which people are the world's most qualified for the most prestigious academic chairs this side of Kohoutek. In addition, I wouldn't suggest Harvard rehire a man the University took years to get rid of. McGeorge Bundy had enough time to leave his indelible depression on Harvard's landscape; let's give Nixon a chance...
...When Kohoutek is at its brightest, it will pass within 13 miles of the sun and be 75 million miles from the Earth...
...Kohoutek is named for its discoverer, Lubes Kohoutek. The Czech astronomer spotted the comet last March, while observing at West Germany's Hamburg Observatory...
...said that dust pollution and light pollution will make observation of the comet in the city of Boston "futile." Celestial enthusiasts should go to the west of the city to see Kohoutek under optimum conditions, Whipple said...