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...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...
...rank-and-filers then hit upon a fascinating statistic: of the 176 Republican Representatives soon to convene in the 88th Congress, a majority of 96 would have six years seniority or less. Among these, almost certainly, could be found a sizable nucleus for rebellion against Halleck's entrenched leadership...
Aspen, of course, was only for the spillover Kennedys. The real nucleus of the group spent the holidays in Palm Beach, celebrating more than the simple capture of another Senate seat. The New York Couture Group, in final capitulation to the Kennedy way, last week for the second consecutive year listed six clansmen-two by birth, four by friendship-among its top twelve Best-Dressed Women...
...Murray Llewellyn Barr, 54, at the University of Western Ontario, was busily studying the cells in the hypoglossus (tongue-controlling nerve) of the female cat when he realized that a little dark spot in each nucleus was never found in the cells of males. Then he learned that this was true of all mammals, including man. Now, a tiny pinch of skin or mucous membrane, examined under the microscope, will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl...
...only now being proved out, Eliot indulges himself in many a long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows it for the word game it is. But like the juggler who danced before the altar...