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...center opened in 1958 as a small, compact research institute which produced a steady stream of scholarship through the 1960's, and was instrumental in the development of the new field of arms controls. The original nucleus of faculty members included Henry A. Kissinger '50, Edward S. Mason, Thomas C. Schelling, and director Robert R. Bowie; the first Fellows Program had 12 "practitioners...
...Charles Dickens. He said the leader of the gang of some 20 young men, ranging in age from 15 to 25, was Spencer Sawyer, 31, a maintenance supervisor. An imposing figure at 6 ft., 230 Ibs., with a full beard and shaven head, Sawyer had formed the nucleus of his gang while coaching a Little League team about seven years ago. The gang members said he plied them, when they were only ten to twelve years old, with cash and drugs. By 1981 a growing circle of young men felt obliged to repay Sawyer's largesse. Working...
Even sharp-eyed amateurs with small telescopes or binoculars could make out the comet's bright central mass, or nucleus, and its long gaseous tail. Astronomers concluded that I-A-A was probably not a "virginal" comet, meaning one that has never before swept around the sun. Its lack of brilliance suggested that the sun had boiled off some of its icy material on earlier journeys, hundreds or even thousands of years...
...presumed building blocks of the solar system. But another satellite, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, also found surprising indications of sulfur molecules. Said University of Maryland Astronomer Michael A'Hearn: "The sulfur may be one of the few things we see that actually reside in the comet's nucleus." The most stunning observational feat came when the big, 1,000-ft. radio telescope in Arecibo, PR., managed to bounce radar waves off the fleeting object and perhaps settled the old argument over whether cometary nuclei are gaseous or solid. Said Harvard's Fred Whipple, dean of American comet...
Because the clubs throw their own parties, they form the nucleus of most members' social lives. When New Jersey raised its drinking age this year from 19 to 21, clubs were some what disrupted by the new law. While the clubs with liquor licenses had to hand them in last week, most upperclass students and a fair number of freshmen who were already legal escaped the new regulation by virtue of a "grandfather clause...