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Grey-maned John L. Lewis, looking more & more like an outsize Pekingese, sat last week at a collective bargaining table in Washington. Between chews on Corona perfectos and Doublemint gum, the United Mine Workers' astute old boss negotiated with the Southern Coal Producers' President Joseph Moody. In the next fortnight, the U.M.W.'s contracts with most of the nation's coal mines will expire; if satisfactory terms for renewal are not agreed on, the U.S. will again face a major strike...
Millions of miles away in space, says Harvard's Astronomer Donald H. Menzel, the sun revolves like a tremendous lawn sprinkler. From its seething corona dense clouds of hydrogen squirt out at speeds up to 600 miles a second. Every so often one of those clouds hits the earth and bathes the planet in a shower of solar gas. But earthlings are protected by bumpers of magnetic force-invisible bars that stretch from pole to pole...
First prize, a portable Smith-Corona typewriter went to Cavin P. Leeman '52. Roger A. Pomeroy '55 won the second prize, a $20 Shaeffer pen set. Third prize, a free typewriter overhaul, was awarded to three people, John deBruynkops, III '53, Alden C. Davis '52, and Linette Peter '54. Fourth prize winner Richard C. Spelman '53 really hit the jackpot, winning 100 pounds of ice to be shipped anywhere in the United States...
...eclipse. Not until 1930, when French Astronomer Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph, did anyone succeed in imitating the natural event. Astronomer Lyot put a small brass disk between the lenses of a simple telescope, cutting off direct sunlight and permitting him to focus the dim radiance of the corona and solar prominences upon a sheet of photographic film. It was a simple enough trick, but one that could not be carried off without superfine lenses, free of any imperfections and kept scrupulously clean. Even the scattered light from a few grains of dust would have ruined the pictures...
Cameras will record the movements of the ghostly corona. And by watching the waving filaments weave their patterns in space, astronomers hope to learn how to forecast the sun-caused atmospheric disturbances that can cripple the world's communication systems and block the best radar instruments...