Word: sagittarius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are embedded in a huge, disk-shaped spiral galaxy. Earth's astronomers have a hard time seeing much else; every star visible in the sky is part of it.* They have an even harder time seeing into its heart (located roughly in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius) because it is obscured by the close-packed stars and cosmic dust that comprise the Milky...
Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...
...kids like seven-year-old Renee Martz, who tooted a trumpet and sang in Chinese. We've had 'Little David,' the teen-age 'miracle healer.' Now we're getting Mr. Billy Graham." The pinko, nationalist New Statesman and Nation ran verses by Sagittarius. Sample stanza...
After some cosmic concentration, a Manhattan astrologer emerged with "the ten most fascinating horoscopes in the world." They included Joseph Stalin, whose emotional disturbances caused by the aspects to his Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Pisces will cause him to overreach himself ... His chart further indicates failing health starting in April" Come spring, Winston Churchill's stars 'will lead him along daring and awe-inspiring paths." The Yankees' Yogi Berra ". . . must be careful to avoid physical injury during February and August...
Though the magazine's pay is nominal, it has attracted such writers as G. B. Shaw, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Rebecca West and Elizabeth Bowen. A weekly feature is the barbed verses of Sagittarius (Olga Katzin, 54, a housewife who makes daily trips to the cubbyhole London office where she writes her poems). Recently, Sagittarius winged the government on the newsprint shortage. Said Sagittarius...