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* One proof of his theory of relativity, Einstein said, would be the observation of a slight bending of light rays from distant stars as they pass through the gravitational field of the sun.
Last week, petitioned by the British, the International Court of Justice at The Hague handed down a ruling on this vexing issue. Britain argued that the proper way to measure four miles out is to follow the contours of the coast, bending the territorial limit like a ribbon shaped to...
At the National Bureau of Standards, Physicist Joseph Feinstein studied the strange reports. Even allowing for some bending of radio waves in the dense lower atmosphere, conventional theory could not explain what was happening. Feinstein knew that just as there is some light reflected back when light waves pass from...
Almost to the end, his fertile, facile brain kept tabs on all his outposts of empire. He still spread his papers on the floor before his bedroom chair, turning the pages with one slipper and bending down to scrawl his piercing critiques, giving his editors lessons in Hearstian journalism. Deskmen...
But grandfather had other ideas. When John Foster graduated from high school, Diplomat Foster sent his grandson to Switzerland for six months to study French. In 1904-the year when Pastor Dulles gave up his church to take the chair of Apologetics at the Auburn Theological Seminary-John Foster began...