Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universe exploding-expanding swiftly into the uttermost reaches of space? Scientists have been puzzling over the startling speculation ever since the 1920s, when Mount Wilson Astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason discovered that the glow from distant galaxies was of a longer wave length than normal. Since light from a receding source shifts toward the red (long wave length) end of the spectrum, the Hubble-Humason observations seemed to suggest that far-out galaxies are all speeding away from the earth and from each other...
...squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length, and in light-drenched space such energy-diminishing collisions are highly probable. They could explain the Hubble-Humason red shift...
...groups of varying position have emerged from the shadows in which they were forced to remain under the regime of the Generalissimo. The largest of these are moderates, though of course some are more moderate than others. The Communists have been exiled, Trujillo supporters have been silenced by the wave of popular demonstrations against them, and the moderate groups who seek free elections and a representative government to replace the system of despotism-cum-plunder of the Trujillo era appear to have reached agreement...
...started, Visser 't Hooft discovered that the smuggling of refugees to freedom combined naturally with the smuggling of information in and out of Holland for the Dutch government-in-exile in London. The apparatus' agents were equipped with microfilm in pens and with clandestine short-wave radio. His two sons remember with displeasure the furtive characters who were constantly turning up at the house, in Geneva; when one arrived, the children were always sent out of the living room-which during the war was the only heated room in the house. In those days the embryo World Council...
...Summer to Remember. New wave in Soviet cinema? Probably not, but this is the fourth good Russian film (the other three: Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man, The Gordeyev Family) to reach the U.S. this year. It is a fresh, warm, funny story of a little boy's life with father in Russia...