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...three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Perhaps no one will ever know what happened when it hit. It may have dug an invisibly small crater among the natural meteor craters on the moon's scarred face. Perhaps it splashed a brief fountain of dust. Whatever it did, the moon could no longer serve as a symbol of unreachability. Man had sent an object from...
...enough to permit a fairly accurate forecast of the rocket's trajectory. As a hedge they used the Russian preposition k (pronounced "kuh"), which means both to and toward. Thus they might have been shooting either at or toward the moon. The final payload, they said, was a sphere weighing 859.8 lbs. and carefully sterilized to avoid contaminating the moon. It was slightly heavier than the payload of Lunik I that missed the moon on Jan. 3, 1959 and soared on into a solar orbit...
...Harvard will be observed only after ten or twenty years. But present Catholic tallies can be compared with over-all totals for the University to arrive at some interesting observations. In general, there seemed to be nothing which distinguished Catholics from the rest of the College in the political sphere. Family income actually exerted a greater influence in determining a party preference and position on various issues...
...sphere of morals it seems that certain stands retain strength after the original metaphysical foundation has dissolved, for two-thirds of the Catholics who had slipped from orthodoxy objected "because of religious beliefs" to both legalized abortion and extra-marital intercourse--a surprisingly large percentage considering that a much smaller fraction of the students polled would follow suit. An even more surprising feature of this question is that some of the staunch Catholics (five in all) failed to object to certain of the practices listed in question 41, all of which are morally objectionable in the eyes of the Church...
...still drifting. Dr. Ewing recalled a theory of Venig Meinesz, who suggested that the early earth may have lacked the dense central core that it has today. Its hot, fluid inside material could circulate unhampered in a single "cell," rising to the surface on one side of the sphere and sinking down on the opposite side after cooling by radiation into space and getting heavier. When this had gone on long enough, all the light rock on the earth's surface was gathered in one hemisphere as a single "ur-continent...