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Coach Bob Scalise, unwilling to go out on anything but a very thick limb, did warn yesterday that other teams could be made much better with the addition of just one or two fine new players. But he went on to grudgingly admit that, "With our strong nucleus from last year we should be competitive with anybody...
Nevertheless, everyone returns from last season's squad, a nucleus which few other squads can boast. As of now sophmores occupy the top three spots, as Martha Roberts, Meg Meyer, and Libby Pierpont all seek to improve on their rookie slates...
...combined. Zwicky and Baade felt sure that the force of such a gravitational collapse and explosion could not only spray material far off into the heavens, but also actually crush the very atoms in the core of a star. Orbiting electrons would be pounded right into the atom's nucleus and wedded with its protons. The result of this celestial alchemy, they said, would be a clump of solidly packed neutrons...
...goal that has long been a dream of physicists: the consummation of what Wheeler calls the "fiery marriage" between general relativity-the great theoretical system for studying the large-scale structure of the cosmos-and quantum mechanics-the mathematical tool for analyzing the diminutive world of the atomic nucleus...
...second wife was one of the Walter sisters, Jean, whom he married less than two years before his death at 80. She was the model for Delia Street. Sam Hicks, an all-round outdoorsman, also devoted his life to Gardner; he was transmogrified into Paul Drake. This nucleus was joined by a large assortment of pretty women and hunting pals. They sometimes camped out in the desert, especially in Gardner's beloved Baja California...