Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved in a headlong collision; it plows full tilt into a stream of meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning of Nov. 17 may number hundreds or even thousands...
...earth circles the sun, it cuts through 1866 I's trail every November slicing into the thin stream of widely dispersed debris that produces the Leonid showers. In 1833, the earth's course took it through the middle of the main cluster of Leonids that follow closely behind the parent comet; it encountered a vastly larger number of meteoroids than usual. Just 33 years later, in November 1866, there was another fiery but less spectacular shower; the main cluster orbiting the sun once every 33¼ years was still three months away...
Nikita's successors, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, have taken a more sympathetic view of Stalin's historical role. The motive is not entirely clear; perhaps B. & K. are reluctant to let Red China take all the credit for Stalinism, or perhaps it has to do with inner Kremlin politics. In any case, they have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step...
...small straw, but straws make the bricks of international agreement, and U.S. officials and newsmen alike grasped at it eagerly. Perhaps too eagerly. Before the week was out, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev seemed to be ordering Gromyko back to the freezer when he issued a tough reply to Lyndon Johnson's recent appeal for better East-West relations. "If the U.S. wants to develop mutual relations," snapped Brezhnev, it must "remove the main impediment," which, in his view, is the bombing of North Viet Nam by U.S. aircraft...
...finding new ways of dealing with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, according to diplomats, flew to the Black Sea, after a two-day layover in Peking, to meet vacationing Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The presence of the Hanoi leaders was never formally acknowledged by the Russians, and just what happened behind the guarded gates of the vacation villa is, of course, a matter for speculation...