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...some cases, says Stanley-Jones, the explosion is powerful enough to disrupt the star, blowing a vast halo of luminous material away from its surface. Such stars would be nonrepeating novae. A milder explosion would merely cause a slight expansion and more brightness. After it is over, perhaps the remaining fissionable material falls back toward the star's center and causes, in due course, another moderate explosion. Such stars, exploding gently at regular intervals, Stanley-Jones says, would behave like the "pulsating variables...
Among all the 50,000 people in the ring, nervous, 23-year-old Rafael Rodriguez wanted most the approval of Rodolfo Gaona. His nod would add thousands of pesos to the matador's earnings. But approval, if it came, would be only a milder-than-usual insult. Who had a better right to be critical? The old man was the greatest bullfighter Mexico ever produced, and one of the greatest in the world's history...
...smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used to be confused with grippe, and the record is more exact...
...bills President Truman will receive this week, that of the Housing and Home Finance Agency is the milder...
...above the Hudson River, Curran and a pack of entomologists hunted woolly bear caterpillars (larvae of a tiger moth, Isia Isabella) and measured their waistbands. In 15 specimens, they averaged five and one-third brown segments. Last year, said Curran, they averaged less than three. Does that mean a milder winter ahead...