Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Otto Struve, 65, astronomer and foremost exponent of the theory that there is life elsewhere in the universe, a White Russian who fled to the U.S. in 1921 to begin a visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif...
With the graduation of such stellar 1962 performers as Grady Watts, Woody Spruance, Dave Grannis, and Henry Field, the varsity lacrosse team rates as the major mystery of the Spring sporting season. Coach Bruce Munro's current squad includes the switch of veteran personnel to new positions and will depend heavily upon a whole host of untested sophomore stickmen...
...Golden Knights of Clarkson bring two big lines, four bigger defensemen, and an adequate goalie against the Crimson in tonight's semifinal E.C.A.C. contest at the Boston arena. With the Eastern hockey crown at stake, the Crimson will need stellar play from all concerned to top the slightly-favored skaters from Potsdam, New York...
...best performances of the day was turned in by Jane Mansfield who took a first in the individual medley. Miss Mansfield also made a stellar showing in the breast stroke where she finished second. Radcliffe finished second in team standings...
...Milky Way galaxy has millions of stars with planets capable of supporting earth-style life. Few if any of them believe that human space voyagers can ever cover the enormous distances that separate the stars. But radio waves cover that range already, and perhaps some not-too-distant stellar system, which includes a planet that has developed a high civilization, is even now sending radio messages in the hope that someone will hear them. Radio astronomers at Green Bank have done a little listening for such messages. They have heard nothing meaningful, but they hope to try again...