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Died. Felix Vening Meinesz, 79, Dutch geophysicist who spent years in submarines measuring variations in the earth's gravitational pull, then developed a widely accepted theory of the origin of continents based on currents in the molten material below the crust of the earth, winning many honors, among them a Doctor of Science degree from Columbia University, which cited him as "a Jules Verne come to life"; of complications following a fall; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands...
...Answer Is Power. As with the Biblical Jesus, who is descended from both the Divine and the House of David, Goat-Boy is given both mystical origin through WESCAC and natural origin from a breed of Toggenburger goats on the campus animal farm. His mother, Virginia R. Hector, the chancellor's chaste daughter who works in the WESCAC programming room, falls into a trance before the machine and somehow is delivered of the goat-child. He is marked by a pair of horns. The goatherd, a disgraced Moishian (Jewish) professor, is cleared of suspicion...
Using a camera loaded with ultraviolet-sensitive film, he shot spectrograms of several stars. Because ultraviolet is largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, the spectrograms could give astronomers a good look at the stars' composition and behavior and provide added information about their origin. As Gemini-Agena passed into daylight, Collins mounted a plate marked with colored patches of red, yellow, blue and grey, shot a series of test pictures that should help determine how the conditions of space affect color photography...
...statement about syntax, not diction-there are common words for "not," "don't," "never," etc.-and even so, TIME'S statement is true only of classical Chinese, not of the spoken language. The Chinese word for freedom means freedom and nothing else. Its origin is indeed from two characters that by themselves mean "spontaneous" and "uncontrol," but then, my dictionary tells me the word free is from "to be fond of," equally irrelevant. And finally, no one who has read a translation of Cliuang tzii or of the poetry of T'ao Yuan-ming is ignorant...
...enough to still think of him primarily as the savior whose crusade spared the church from the terrors of Communism. By contrast, most of Catholicism's influential lay leaders, and almost half of its 34,500 priests, are under 40. Many of the priests are of working-class origin, and feel strongly that the church has lost touch with the mass es. They accuse the hierarchy of doing little to implement the reforms of Vatican II, and generally regard Franco's authoritarianism as incompatible with the council's declarations on political freedom and liberty of conscience...