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ASTRONOMERS, physicists and even philosophers the world over are engaged these days in nothing less than a reappraisal of the origin and nature of the universe, largely because of the work of the man who appears on this week's cover. Dutch-born Professor Maarten Schmidt of California Institute of Technology is the astronomer who found the key to quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources), those bright, distant and mysterious objects that have been baffling astronomers. Now Schmidt and other scientists are using quasars to unlock some of nature's most difficult enigmas. Perhaps not since Galileo...
...Schmidt story was not an easy one to report or to write. The world of quasar astronomy is one of nigh-incredible reaches in time, space and imagination. It involves unheard-of distances, temperatures and energy. It has its own logic and language, and it takes astronomy to the edge of theology, physics to the edge of metaphysics. It raises such questions as whether the universe came into being suddenly, or whether it existed forever-and in that case, what is "forever"? What is eternity? "The subject," says Science Writer Leon Jaroff, "makes the mind boggle, especially when...
...committee headed by Dr. William M. Schmidt of the School of Public Health and Mrs. Katherine G. Clark of the Center for Urban Studies will press for passage of a new Massachusetts birth-control bill...
...Massachusetts Public Health Association's legislative committee, headed by Dr. Schmidt and Mrs. Clark, will attempt to promote the new bill by informing the public and state representatives of the bill's implications...
...three airline hostesses who share a Paris flat with Tony Curtis. As a prodigiously oversexed American newspaperman, Tony has obviously never met a deadline, but he does keep busy checking timetables, the better to enjoy, one by one, his "fiancées" from British United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps through the premises changing linens, juggling menus, and scornfully polishing off a collection of stale sex jokes...