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...symphony orchestra, the tuba is like a ship's engine: it produces a rumble that is hardly noticeable when it is there, but is sorely missed when it is not. Thus it was a serious matter when the San Francisco Symphony learned recently that its stellar tuba player, Ronald Bishop, had been lured away by the Cleveland Orchestra. In its search for a replacement, the San Francisco Symphony rejected all the local candidates. That sent the Musicians' Union into a huff, and the orchestra had to take the union to court before it could carry its talent hunt...
Although some 200 quasars (quasi-stellar sources) have been discovered since the first one was identified in 1960, scientists have been unable to agree on the nature, or even the size or distance of the mysterious starlike objects. Quasar controversies have so rocked the once stable world of astronomy that California Institute of Technology Astronomer Jesse Greenstein has been driven to poetic expression...
Theory & Practice. In their specialties, the two schools have been world pacesetters. Caltech's astronomers use the telescopes at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, and with Maarten Schmidt have explored the unusual nature of quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter...
...every other occasion, Crimson goalie Richie Hammond was equal to the Williams attack. He made 21 saves in a stellar performance that kept his team within striking range...
...some of the spectral characteristics of a nova, a star that suddenly flares up, the X-ray-emitting envelope of gas surrounding it is apparently not expanding. This leads Giacconi to speculate that ScoX-1 may be a cloud of gas condensing into an infant star, or an existing stellar system surrounded by a gas cloud. "Or," he says, "we may be looking at an entirely new type of celestial object...