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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encouraged by optimistic astronomical forecasts that suggested the annual Leonid meteor shower might well be more dramatic than usual (TIME, Nov. 18), a team of University of Arizona students ascended nearby Kitt Peak to observe the spectacle, What they saw exceeded their wildest expectations...
Astronomers are hoping for a spectacle reminiscent of 1833, when about 10,000 meteors per hour were visible over the eastern U.S. at the peak of the shower. That year, awed viewers, aroused from sleep by the bright flashes, described shooting stars "falling from the sky like snowflakes." Many thought that the end of the world had come...
Comet Composition. During the shower, the Air Force will launch an Aerobee rocket equipped with a "Venus Flytrap" nose cone. While the rocket is rising to a peak altitude of 117 miles, four arms will extend out of the nose cone to catch the Leonid meteoroids, entering the earth's atmosphere at a speed of 162,000 m.p.h.; then the arms fold into the nose cone, which will fall back to earth carrying specimens that will help scientists determine the composition of the comet...
...months since President Johnson announced the U.S. military buildup for Viet Nam, draft calls have inched steadily upward. Last month's total - 49,300 - was the highest since early 1951, the peak mobilization period of the Korean War, when 80,000 men a month were called. The effect has been to deplete the nation's 1-A manpower pool to the point at which Selective Service headquarters is now forced to find new ways to replenish...
Hilles Library has a seating capacity of 600. Over the past week, a count by the staff indicates that there have never been more than 341 people in the library -- even at the peak hour of 8:30 p.m. The average for that hour has been not quite 240, and is even less for other times during...