Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bert Corona, former director of CASA, a Los Angeles-based group which lobbies for progressive immigration legislation, will speak at 7:30 followed by Timothy Whalen, acting district director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service who will present Carter's plan for dealing with the immigration problem. Jose Medina, former director of the Centro de Immigration at Georgetown University Law School, will respond to the Carter plan...
...author for 18 years, I shudder at your revelations about poor rates paid to freelance writers [April 10]. But you omitted the other side. Does every person with the price of a Smith-Corona deserve to be called freelance? The sobering answer: most editors' greatest complaint is that many "writers" don't bother to read a copy of the magazine before submitting articles and wildly miss the publication's slant. So-called freelancers fail to deliver assignments more than 50% of the time and have an awesome record of not meeting deadlines...
...specific function of the coronagraph is to determine the wavelength distribution of the corona's ultraviolet rays in order to derive temperatures within the corona...
...coronograph is designed to create an artificial solar eclipse, thereby permitting observation of the ultraviolet rays of the corona, the portion of the sun's atmosphere which extends well beyond the visible disk...
Because the corona is only one-billionth as bright as the sun's visible disc, scientists have been able to observe only a very limited portion of the corona when the sun is not eclipsed. An extensive observation of the corona has occurred just once, during the 1970 total solar eclipse, by an expedition force led by Donald H. Menzel, former director of the Harvard Observatory...