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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Magnitude. Those brief seconds of gradual fading and slow reappearance were the reason for all the excitement. When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously. But Venus has an abundant atmosphere, and so a star that it covers fades slowly, its light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lighted by Regulus | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Recently Dr. Frank Donald Drake of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va. theorized that Jupiter's radio waves do not come from the atmosphere at all but from a vast Jovian version of the double doughnut of Van Allen radiation that surrounds the earth. Ionized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lighted by Regulus | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Meteorologist Banner Miller of the National Hurricane Center at Miami is certain that this fatal underestimation will not be repeated. Today's weathermen know that the strength of a hurricane depends on the temperature of the sea water, the temperature of the air up to 50,000 ft., the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watch That Hurricane | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

The archbishop was adamant. Sue's mother said she was against Sue's going to Long Beach. Sue said she would go anyway. "If I go against mother's wishes, it doesn't seem a bit fair that she should be denied the sacraments, too," she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Archbishop v. Redhead | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Babies & Walking Dead. Last week, when the day of the Jagannath Festival dawned, the city of Puri (pop. 60,000) was packed with 150,000 pilgrims from all over India. Some had come crammed into special trains from Calcutta, 265 miles to the north; wide-eyed peasants had come on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Juggernaut | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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