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Having been in the limelight herself for several years, Sharman Douglas, 22, daughter of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was off to pound a $125-a-week Hollywood typewriter and turn the beam on someone else. The job: helping RKO publicize Cinemactress Jean Simmons...
...Roman Catholics, the success of the Holy Year was a bright beam of light in a dark, uneasy world. Msgr. Sergio Pignedoli, director of the Holy Year Central Committee, summed it up: "This year's great discovery is that in a world apparently skeptical and indifferent, there's a vigorous current of faith...
...seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppycock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work. Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below...
...great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda nebula...
...alcohol. The alcohol vapor diffuses downward, becoming colder as it approaches the dry ice at the bottom. At some point in its downward motion it makes the air supersaturated. In this sensitive layer, cosmic rays or other fast-moving atomic particles leave trails that show up in a flashlight beam as brilliant white streaks...