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...finally made sense of a dim companion of the star Sirius that was first observed in the 1860s and had puzzled astronomers for decades. Though the star was apparently small, it exerted an inexplicably great gravitational pull on Sirius. The dense little companion?like others that have been observed since???was a white dwarf. But would bigger stars, with greater gravity, shrink into still smaller, even more dense bundles...
...Perturbable Rusk. Throughout his Indian tour?and ever since???Galbraith also waged a hot war with the State Department. Communications from Washington took too long to arrive, he complained, and communicated nothing when they did get there. Occasionally, he set U.S. policy by himself. Entirely on his own, for instance, he announced that the U.S. recognized India's disputed northern borders. Washington gulped, but went along. Confronted by Galbraith, the usually imperturbable Dean Rusk has proved quite perturbable, and when the ambassador argued for a change in U.S. policy toward China, the Secretary shot back: "Your views...
...slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates. S. (for Samuel; Bayard Colgate, 36, was elected president, and a management representing stock control stepped in. A quiet, clear-headed great-grandson of the founder, President Colgate has been house-cleaning ever since???with the result that in the first six months of the year C. P. P. made $2,400,000 against $765,000 in the 1933 half...
...political career started in 1880 when he was elected a member for Galway as a, Nationalist. In 1885 he was elected a member for both Galway and the Scotland Division of Liverpool. He chose the latter seat and has represented it in Parliament ever since???38 years...