Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILITARY COURTS See Here, Specialist Schmidt...
Specialist Fourth Class Gerald L. Schmidt sounded like an average G.I. when he bellyached about the Fort Riley chow and groused about overcrowded quarters. Unlike most of his buddies, though, Schmidt was not content to restrict his complaint to barracks bull sessions; he put his beefs in writing and sent them to Senator Gaylord Nelson of his home state of Wisconsin. The Senator forwarded the complaint to Fort Riley's commanding general. A veteran of four years of Army service during World War II, Nelson might have been expected to choose a more promising way of serving a constituent...
...much of the scientific community accepts Astronomer Maarten Schmidt's contention that the faint stars called quasars are the most distant objects ever observed (TIME cover, March 11). But challengers remain, and they have by no means given up. Schmidt's colleague, Halton Arp of the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, for example, believes that quasars were ejected from odd-looking galaxies that are, by cosmological standards, virtual neighbors to the earth...
...million and one billion years ago. If they were formed in this manner, he concludes, they must still be relatively close to their parent galaxies, which are located only 30 million to 300 million light-years from the earth. They would not have reached the cosmological distances suggested by Schmidt...
...Your story on quasi-stellar sources is well researched. It may not be amiss to note that while Schmidt has concentrated on the spectra of QSS, others have contributed more importantly to their identification and photometry...