Word: menzel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haar, professor of Law; Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; V.O. Key, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; Arthur A. Maas, professor of Government; Ernest R. May, associate professor of History; Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; and Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, joined in the endorsement of Ted Kennedy by James McGregor Burns...
...opposite view was held, and Venus was thought to be a desert planet scoured by constant sand-storms. In 1950, Donald A. Menzel and Fred L. Whipple suggested that the entire planet was covered with ocean. Some time later, the British astronomer Fred Hoyle postulated instead an ocean...
...them with rockets. Tunisian troops, armed with rifles and light machine guns, were flattened under barrages from 105-mm. howitzers. Evidently disregarding orders from Paris-a tradition with the French army-tanks and armored cars roared 15 miles outside the Bizerte base. Tanks sprayed bullets into the town of Menzel-Bourguiba, nine miles from Bizerte, where the French maintain an arsenal and shipyard. Soon there were 27 Tunisian corpses laid out beneath the stadium bleachers near a sign reading "HalfTime resting place." Ten were civilians. In Tunis thousands had demonstrated, chanting "Na Moutou [We will die]." Few thought they would...
Donald H. Menzel, director of the Observatory, headed the group, which included Gail Moreton, director of the Lockheed Solar Observatory in Burbank, Calif...
...Menzel plans to photograph the solar corona, an irregular luminous envelope visible only during a total eclipse. An unusual feature of his observations will be he use of polaroid cameras in place of raditional heavy equipment...