Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gutsy Wail. Brown reasons that "to get people to listen to you, you first have to get their attention." He should know. Like other rhythm-and-blues singers, he has been largely unknown in the U.S. outside the Negro community. In Britain, however, Brown and other blues merchants such as Joe Turner, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker are the idols after which the big-beat groups from the Beatles on down have fashioned their music. That the U.S. pop-music market so readily adopted the synthetic British translation of a purely American idiom made Brown see red. To promulgate...
...Unknown Cause. It is more than coincidence, says Arp in an article in Science, that so many of the quasars and radio galaxies appear to lie so close to the peculiar galaxies in the sky. The explanation, he believes, is that they were formed from great masses of matter expelled from exploding central galaxies between 10 million and one billion years ago. If they were formed in this manner, he concludes, they must still be relatively close to their parent galaxies, which are located only 30 million to 300 million light-years from the earth. They would not have reached...
...cares? Through the unknown we'll find...
...seasons in both league. But some teams, including Kirkland, still have one or two games left to play. The intramural basketball championship is determined by a complicated formula that no one quite understands. "A" league victories are known to be worth more than "B" league victories, though. A certain unknown combination, then, of "A" and "B" league wins could shuffle Leverett and Quincy into the intramural basketball championship...
...fishermen. After testing 8,000 of them for technical aptitudes, the company hired 800, is housing them for as little as $5.33 a month in a new town that boasts a well-stocked shopping center and a six-grade school. Though the company is exploiting assets that were unknown to the ancients, it has remembered to pay them fitting homage: streets in the new town bear such names as Plato, Socrates and Aristotle...