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...believing in the prevalence of populated planets. The stars that man sees in the sky, he says, are masses of matter big enough to support thermonuclear reactions that give off a great deal of light. Objects with less than 7% of the mass of the sun do not shine...
...Light Shine." Jackie attended only one affair - a 4½-hour reception for some 5,600 invited Democrats held by Averell Harriman. Dressed in a striking white silk brocade, she shunned jewelry, greeted guests with a white glove and a soft "Nice to see you." In the hotel's auditorium, Actor Fredric March and his actress wife Florence Eldridge read poetry favored by President Kennedy and excerpts from some of his most memorable speeches. March said beforehand that Kennedy "would have deplored sadness in any of us"; yet few could check tears as he recited Alan Seeger...
Girl with Green Eyes. She looks, at a glance, like somebody's stenographer. Ski-jump nose, ratty hair, teeth a bit askew. But a fuller inspection finds something special in the face, a radiance. The eyes have it. They are large, the eyes of a night animal. They shine in a night of their own like stars in a dark pool...
...World War II years he dutifully trod water in a routine variety of posts. He got married, fathered a daughter, Patricia, and a son, Grant, who is now a Navy lieutenant at the Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey, and polished his golf game to a ten-handicap shine. In mid-1942 he got a wartime command aboard a minesweeper, picked up a commendation for combat action off Casablanca, then served nearly two years on the Boyd in the Pacific. His older brother, Thomas, was also a Navyman in the war; he died in the Pacific when his submarine, Pickerel...
What would happen to the solar system if half of the universe disappeared? From Newton to Einstein, most experts have agreed that nothing much would happen except that the sky would have fewer stars. But now British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle says that the sun would shine 100 times brighter and burn the earth to a crisp...