Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few of the 2,100 papers presented were general enough to interest the general public. One of the most striking was a movie on the churning, boiling surface of the sun, shown by Harvard's Dr. Donald H. Menzel. Taken through a special telescope at Climax, Colo., the pictures showed enormous filaments of luminous gas spurting out into space (see cut). One subject looked tough, even to the A.A.A.S. In a secluded auditorium the mathematicians, happily browsing among stochastics and open Riemann surfaces, were cornered by reporters who wanted to know the exact meaning of Einstein...
...probably the climax in a week of unrelenting semi-deification bestowed on Joseph Stalin during the celebrations of his 70th birthday. Throughout, a super-lifesized head of the celebrant grinned down from the heavens above the Kremlin upon his worshiping subjects. It was quite a nice trick, too; the head (and a discreet portion of bust, to suggest that it was still fixed to a body) was suspended from balloons and illuminated by huge spotlights...
...Einstein does establish his new theory, it will be the high point of his career, and another climax in the great scientific revolution which he and a few colleagues started nearly 50 years ago (see THE HALF CENTURY...