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...nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked eye in daylight just before its close approach to the sun in December, and even more spectacularly in the evening during January as it begins to move away. Perhaps the most remarkable sight will be seen by observers in Latin America. On the day before Christmas, an annular eclipse* will occur over South...
...occasionally went for a walk in the garden with Jacqueline and their two Afghan hounds. After a siesta, there was tea, and when he was not expecting friends, Picasso read or worked until 2 or 3 in the morning. "Work is what commands my schedule," he told a friend. "Daylight is perfect to contact friends -which is always a must with an artist -and go out. In our modern times, we can obtain excellent light at night -which we could never do with the yellowish shades of old lamps-and I also have silence...
...wily culprits cruise around wooded areas in cars (one gang used an airplane) during daylight hours to spot their victims, then strike at night. Armed with chain saws silenced with auto mufflers, they have to move too quickly to bother with the valuable branches (which are used for furniture legs and braces) or roots (which are made into gunstocks). All they want are the trunks, which they winch onto a truck and sell to sawmills to be processed for veneer...
...Communists had moved some 40,000 men plus 300 tanks, 150 heavy artillery pieces, 160 antiaircraft guns and 300 trucks down the trail. The only important change from pre-cease-fire days, in fact, seemed to be that the North Vietnamese were driving southward in broad daylight, since they were no longer fearful of U.S. air strikes. The trail, says one American analyst, "looks like the New Jersey Turnpike during rush hour...
SHOT from an altitude of 500 miles during daylight hours, ordinary weather-satellite pictures show little or no evidence of man and his great cities, highways, bridges, dams and cultivated fields. In fact, a visitor from another planet, viewing the world from that distance, might well ask: "Is there life on earth?" At night, however, the answer is obvious. The picture above, one of a series taken at 500 miles altitude by an Air Force satellite during darkness, clearly shows the cities in the eastern half of the U.S. glowing brightly-unmistakable signs that creatures below are using huge amounts...