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...couples proceed to the dance in Sharpe Refectory, reputed to have the best kitchen facilities of any college in the country. The building is constructed like boxes fitted inside each other: the innermost box being the kitchen, the surrounding one "the pit," where the independents eat, the outermost one a carton segmented into a small room for each fraternity. Tonight, however, the fraternity dining rooms are locked and vinly drapes hang like shower curtains all along the room, diffusing the red, blue and white light along the highly-polished brown floor and light green walls...
...matter distantly associated with the solar system. They may have been left over from the dust cloud that went to form the sun, or they may have originated in a Saturn-like ring that once surrounded the sun. Most of them are believed to stay far beyond the outermost planets, moving on orbits so distant that they are invisible. A few have been affected by some passing star and deflected into lopsided orbits that carry them periodically down toward the sun. These are the comets that become visible to man's eye and telescopes...
Astronomers have always felt uncertain about Pluto, the outermost planet in the solar system. It is suspiciously small, with less than half of the earth's diameter, and its orbit is peculiar. Instead of revolving in a near-circle around the sun as the other planets do, Pluto follows an eccentric ellipse, cutting across the orbit of Neptune, its sunward neighbor (which is 39 times the size of the earth). These deviations suggest that Pluto may not be a real planet...
Astronomers are cosily familiar with stars quadrillions of miles from the earth, and with galaxies much more distant. But Pluto, a member of the sun's own planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles away, has little personality for them. The outermost member of the solar system, it shines only feebly by reflected sunlight. Even in the biggest telescopes it looks like a faint star; only its motion among the real stars and a slight fuzziness prove it to be a planet. Astronomers are not sure how big it is (probably midway between Mercury and Mars), but recently...
...like a ribbon shaped to the mainland's contour. Under that system, a goodly part of the waters fished by British trawlers would be open sea, free to all comers. The Norwegians argued for their own system, which measures the four-mile zone from lines drawn between the outermost land points and rocks along her saw-toothed coast. It would be utterly ridiculous, the Norwegians contended, to try to figure out a four-mile limit based on their coastline and even worse to attempt to police...