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Liller also dwelled on some of the oddities and paradoxes of planets, in addition to debunking popular conceptions. Mercury, the smallest planet, has both the highest and lowest temperature in the solar system. While temperatures on the side of Mercury that always faces the sun rise to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, the dark side (only 50 degrees above absolute zero) is colder than Pluto, the furthermost planet from...
Essentially, the production was the same as that given at New York's City Center. The staging and settings were exemplary. Julius Rudel conducted with complete authority; and the singers--headed by Gail Manners, Walter Cassel, Dolores Mari, and Robert Williams--were uniformly excellent down to the smallest part. In all, a stunning production of an important addition to the American operatic repertory...
...drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday," hypnotize with their own heavy-lidded evocation of sleep. He packed worlds into monosyllables. "To be or not to be" is man's largest question put in man's smallest and simplest words. Once uttered, they expand to fill all the space in the human mind...
...Jewish hands? Had he been living contemptuously close to Israel in one of the neighboring and hostile Arab states? Was he really Eichmann, the butcher? The Israeli government, obviously fearful of international embarrassment, clamped down a curtain of total secrecy, refused to release any pictures of Eichmann or the smallest detail of how he had been caught...
...centuries, measuring time was simple. A day was one full rotation of the earth, and a second, the smallest unit needed, was 1/86,400th of a day. But as scientists' standards became more exacting, they were bothered by the fact that the earth's rotation fluctuates slightly from day to day and slows one second a century as tides and other influences slow the earth's spin. Such tiny variations become important in space-age problems. Example: plotting the position of a long-range missile, where widely separated stations have to coordinate their observations within millionths...