Word: corona
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UPTON SINCLAIR Corona, Calif...
...through high-powered telescopes, was illuminating, especially on color TV, and it proved-once more-that the wonders of nature are far more effective than man-made TV wizardry. Choice shots: the seething surface of the sun, sunspots in action, the aurora borealis, the sun, in eclipse, with its corona. Given a straighter, less condescending narrative and less self-conscious showmanship, Bell's slick new series can prove a bright shuttle between TV's need to entice and its assumed obligation to inform...
...radiant central sphere, 401n. in diameter, rotates with the gentlest breeze. Soaring outward from the free-moving core are finespun wire planes in the form of arcs (the sun's corona and prominences), so finely constructed that they quiver with the building's imperceptible vibration. Even more remarkable than the feat of putting it together is Sculptor Lippold's assurance that he can disassemble The Sun, pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
...osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later, with Sakacs' symptoms getting worse, he was taken to Corona Naval Hospital southeast of Los Angeles...