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...deaths the four Dutchmen had been called in for five hours of questioning by the Hacienda, or treasury, police because the name of one of them, Jacobus Andries Koster, 46, had been on a piece of paper allegedly found on the body of a slain guerrilla. Koster and Jan Kuiper, 39, had a reputation in The Netherlands for deep emotional commitment to Latin American revolutionary movements...
...Francisco Giants traded pitcher Ed Whitson to the Cleveland Indians for second baseman Duane Kuiper...
...young biologist named Lynn Alexander whom he would shortly marry, Sagan was a highly productive researcher. As always, he was iconoclastic. Although most astronomers were studying the more distant realms of the stars and galaxies, Sagan opted for the nearby planets, under the tutelage of the late Gerard Kuiper. He realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American space activity, Sagan made a perspicacious wager...
...star -dubbed MWC 349-since the 1930s. But it was not until this past year that researchers studying the star through the 2.3-meter (90 in.) infra-red telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory and the 91-cm. (36 in.) infra-red scope in Ames' Kuiper Airborne Observatory, realized how unusual it was. In simultaneous observations, the scientists discovered that the star, already ten times the size and 30 times the mass of the sun, was surrounded by a great glowing disc some 224 million km. (approximately 140 million miles) in diameter...
...Sagan wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe, a recent book that presents the classic argument for the existence of life elsewhere in the universe. As the current director of planetary studies at Cornell, Sagan happily creates scientific scenarios in terms of possibility, rather than strict probability. (The late Gerard Kuiper [TIME, Jan. 7], for years director of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, once remarked: "Carl doesn't want to be confused by the facts...