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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State of Shock. Acting on his hunch, Schmidt assumed that the lines he saw were really hydrogen lines. He measured the shift and calculated that 3C 273 was moving away at 15% of the speed of light, or about 28,000 miles per second. This meant, according to Hubble's law, that the quasar must be about 1.5 billion light-years from the earth, instead of being a faint, nearby star - as most astronomers had assumed...
Despite the reductions, promised Healey, there would be "no ratting on our commitments." But it clearly meant a drastic revision in the traditional composition of Britain's three services. Cruelest cut of all went to the Royal Navy, which will lose all of its four carriers, now the nucleus of Britain's sea power. The army will reduce its garrisons in Malta and Cyprus, will withdraw entirely from British Guiana and Aden. The Royal Air Force's V-bombers, which now constitute Britain's nuclear strike force, will gradually be grounded...
...seemed curious that the Kremlin had allowed him to leave. One theory had it that Tarsis' trip had been meant to distract attention from the trial of Soviet Writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky (TIME, Feb. 18). According to a more ingenious version, he had promised the KGB (secret police) to publicly condemn Sinyavsky and Daniel when he reached London, then proceeded to do just the opposite. What seemed most likely, however, was that the Soviets had simply hoped that Tarsis would seek asylum of his own accord, thereby sparing them the problem of coping with a certified lunatic...
Pettigrew was invited in January to head the study. He declined, however, because this meant that he would have to leave Harvard. While Pettigrew will have to spend a good part of the summer in Washington working on the study, and currently commutes to the Capital once or twice a week, he will still teach three courses here next year...
...generalist." As a man who could do absolutely nothing of a practical nature, I was slightly amazed when I met my fellow trainees for the Peace Corps "R.C.A." program in Sierra Leone thought that I would be working with computers or television sets before I learned the initials meant ("rural community action")--Carpenters, masons, geologists, an people you read about in books, unreal people, people who can (shudder) do things...