Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shift was all the more surprising in that Kirk has had little opportunity to build a positive public record-though he has certainly attracted plenty of attention. Upon being elected, he vanished on vacation, reappearing with an eye-popping blonde fiancée named Erika Mattfeld. They were married Feb. 18 under guard of state troopers armed with tommy guns. His most flamboyant gesture came in his oft-declared war on crime. Kirk recruited a big private-detective agency to spearhead his offensive, and although its accomplishments so far have been nil, Floridians can talk of little else-some officials...
...Miles per Second. Jointly publishing their findings in the Astrophysical Journal, the three astronomers report that the wave length of light emitted from 0237-23 is more than double what it would normally be; it is shifted toward the red, or longer-wave-length end of the spectrum, by a factor of 2.22. Just as the lowered pitch of the whistle of a receding train is determined by the speed at which it is traveling, 0237-23's red shift-the largest ever observed in a celestial body-indicates to most scientists that the quasar is receding from...
Unlike the spectra of other quasars, which demonstrate one red shift in their emission lines and sometimes another in their absorption lines (caused by the passage of their light through cooler matter on the way to the observer), the spectrum of 0237-23 displays three red shifts. In addition to the expected shift of its emission lines, Astronomers Greenstein and Maarten Schmidt (TIME cover, March 11, 1966) have found its absorption lines have two distinctly different and lower red shifts. Astronomer Greenstein believes that they are caused by light from the central body passing through two shells of gas rapidly...
Astronomer Schmidt believes that, on the basis of their red shifts, quasars are the most distant objects in the universe, but cannot satisfactorily explain how they generate their tremendous energy. Dr. Arp believes that quasars seem bright because they are relatively close and actually are objects expelled from galaxies wracked by explosions, but cannot satisfactorily explain their tremendous red shift. Says Schmidt: "If you get an impression of uncertainty about the state of knowledge of quasars, you are right. That is what the situation...
...Black Natchez" describes the Negro community's shift from apathy to action in civil rights...