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Although only two per cent of the sun will be visible in Cambridge on March 7, this sliver will effectively block out the scientifically interesting portion of the sun, the outer corona. Therefore, in order to perform several experiments which require a total eclipse, scientists from around the world will be convening in southern Mexico...
...Practical Astronomy and former director of the Harvard College Observatory, will set up camp in Miahautlan, an Indian village south of Oaxaca. This will be Menzel's 13th eclipse. "The sun has been my specialty, and there is still no better method of observing the sun's outer corona than by watching an actual eclipse," he said...
...Corona, Calif...
Paschoff said that the Harvard team will be mainly concerned with observations of the solar corona-the vast outer atmosphere of the sun-with a spectrograph which he is building with Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysies...
...view the film is poorer for it. Nothing in Easy Rider's endless shots of motorcycles (stolen, as was some of Roger Corona's work in Wild Angels-in which Fonda also starred-from Kenneth Anger's incantatory Scorpio Rising ) matches the groaning ferocity of Steppenwolf's lyrics ("Get the motor running/Shoot out on the highway / Looking for adventure / And whatever comes our way / Hey darling gonna make it happen / Take the world in a love embrace / Fire all of our guns at once and explode into space") and these disjunct moods clash to disengage the viewer...