Word: smithsonian
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...halo of the earth's Milky Way galaxy. In the inner regions of these clusters, which contain tens of thousands of individual stars, some of the stars are revolving with wobbly motions, as if disturbed by a center of enormous gravity. Herbert Gursky and Andrea Dupree of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that these stars "may well be orbiting a black hole with the mass of a thousand suns." Still other candidates lie far beyond the Milky Way. At least two galaxies, known as M87 and NGC6251 in astronomy catalogues, seem to be undergoing violent upheavals, quite possibly...
...pastime, sees "an increased sophistication and appreciation of kites as an art, a science and an adult sport." An estimated 150 million kites will be sold this year. People turn out in ever greater profusion for such events as the Great Boston Kite Festival in mid-May and the Smithsonian Institution's March Kite Carnival in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., kite-ins are sponsored by towns, school systems, civic groups, museums and radio stations (notably, and naturally, Chicago's WIND...
...celebrities and artists were attending a formal dinner, held by TIME and the Smithsonian Institution, to mark a major bequest to the portrait gallery: nearly 900 pieces of original art used for TIME covers during the past 25 years. From this week until Aug. 30, in an exhibition entitled "The TIME of Our Lives," 107 of the covers will be on display. After that, a smaller number will be selected from the collection on a rotating basis and shown in a room permanently provided by the gallery. The covers not on view in Washington will be available for inspection...
...work, in tracking down and retrieving hundreds of pieces of cover art, some of which had drifted to TIME offices round the world. Promotion Director Robert Sweeney arranged the complicated details of the bequest with the gallery. The gift was accepted by S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. "These portraits are as stylish and as spirited as the people they depict," said Ripley, "and we are delighted to have them...
Acting for TIME, I was delighted to be able to present the collection to the Smithsonian and to open the portrait exhibition with Secretary Ripley and Mayor Walter D. Washington...