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...first the local citizenry were determined not to have a "maniac ward" in town, but the Menningers persuaded them to withdraw their opposition and even to underwrite a psychiatric hospital. From this nucleus has grown the present Menninger Clinic, by far the most famous psychiatric hospital in the U.S., which pioneered in research, and was one of the first to set up a juvenile division (the Southard School). It conducts an outpatient service and seminars for businessmen and industrialists as well. Also in Topeka is the Menninger School of Psychiatry, which has trained more mind doctors than any other...
...time it was some 480 million miles away from the sun, or roughly in the vicinity of the orbit of Jupiter. In contrast, Halley's comet-less bright than Kohoutek's-was not spotted until it was about 170 million miles closer to the sun. Although the nucleus of a typical comet (which is thought to be composed of frozen water, methane and ammonia, as well as dust particles) is only about a mile in diameter, Kohoutek's comet seems to be a brobdingnagian 10 to 15 miles across. Moreover it will come to within 13 million...
Although the comet is now visible only as a speck of light in telescopes, solar radiation will boil off gases and dust from the nucleus as it approaches closer to the sun. In the "solar wind," the stream of electrically charged particles that continually emanate from the sun, the material from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked...
...nucleus of the Cayugan squad is one of the best collections of fireballers in the country, led by Steve Hamrick, currently third in the nation with an astounding strikeout average of 14.5 whiffs per game. Cornell has done Harvard the favor of sending its ace, Hamrick, at the Crimson today. He has an overall record of 4-0 and an ERA of 0.95. The Crimson is returning the favor by putting Roz Brayton, 4-1, on the mound against the Cayugans. Brayton's ERA is even lower than Hamrick...
Antiwar activist Tom Hayden told another teach-in that some returning American POWs were forming "a fascist nucleus," providing President Nixon with his first organized pro-war support in a long time...