Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next morning they did. Left in control of the building, the Negroes eventually released their three hostages-26 hours after they were first taken captive. A number of the whites had meanwhile moved on President Kirk's office-he was not there at the time-in nearby Low Library. One group broke down a side door and brushed aside campus police to get into the office; others clambered through a window. They hurled Kirk's papers onto the floor, smoked his cigars, pasted on the office window a sign reading LIBERATED AREA. BE FREE TO JOIN...
Other students, including many sympathetic to the demonstrators' demands, began to complain about their disruptive tactics. Outside Low Library, some 200 counterdemonstrators cried: "Get 'em out! Get 'em out!" Some threw eggs. A group of Columbia athletes volunteered to remove the protesters, but were restrained by school officials. "If this is a barbarian society," growled a burly wrestler, "then it's survival of the fittest-and we're the fittest...
Astrophysicist Richard Henry and his NRL associates crammed X-ray detectors into the nose of an Aerobee rock et last September and fired it high above the atmosphere, which absorbs X rays before they reach the earth. Telemetry from one detector designed to spot "soft" or low-energy X rays emanating from intergalactic space showed unexpectedly high readings. What- in apparently empty space - was producing this radiation...
...hydrogen gas, the NRL scientists turned to their computers. To produce the detected radiation, they calculated, the temperature of the gas would have to be 1,400,000° F. and its density only one atom of hydrogen in every 3.5 cu. ft. of space. But even at this low density, says Astrophysicist Henry, the hydrogen gas would constitute 100 times as much matter as there is in all of the galaxies combined and thus solve the mystery of the universe's missing mass...
Uneven Impact. Of course, the optimistic view is neither unanimous nor total. Many experts think that unemployment may jump briefly from its present low of 3.6% to a range of from 4½% to 5%. Painful though that would be to the workers affected, the situation would help to curb inflationary pay increases. Chicago Economist John Langum expects a drop in business inventories, corporate profits, personal income and consumer spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles...