Word: leighton
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While all that may be true, says Caltech physicist Robert Leighton, "if the sun didn't have a magnetic field, it would be as dull as most nighttime astronomers think it is." What a difference a field makes. Twisted and stretched by both the sun's rotation and its roiling interior, the magnetic lines of force orchestrate the intriguing solar cycle...
...Outing Club--now in its 40th year--provides many opportunities to get away from it all and "inevitably have a good time", says President Jon D. Leighton '88. The club coordinates hiking, biking, snowshoeing, or kayaking trips...
...that the communication among them no longer has an intimate, chambermusic quality. Some listeners miss the old soul-rattling vibrations. Says Acoustician Larry King, who was not involved in the project: "Carnegie Hall doesn't shake the skull as it did before." Summing up the negative reaction, Music Critic Leighton Kerner of the Village Voice declared, "New York City now has another Avery Fisher Hall," referring to the acoustically troubled home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center...
...Quite a number of us felt that sometimes oneof life's great wisdoms is to do nothing," saidoverseer George N. Leighton, a federal distictcourt judge in Chicago, of the discussion at theFebruary meeting...
...miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...