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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polaris would not hurry for Dr. Moore; so the confirmation of his theory had to wait. Dr. Roemer, by carefully comparing a long series of spectrograms, proved that Polaris is circling once in 30½ years around a dim and probably close companion whose faint light is wholly blotted out by the glare of the supergiant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: North Star & Co. | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...North Star, which has guided navigators throughout history, is not a lonely star like the sun. It has long been known to have a rather dim and distant "companion" visible in telescopes, and the two stars revolve around each other once in thousands of years. Now Dr. Elizabeth Roemer of the University of California has found evidence that Polaris has a second, nearby companion that cannot be seen even with the biggest telescopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: North Star & Co. | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Regnery has published a spate of works by such right-wing authors as William F. Buckley Jr., Chesly Manly, Louis Budenz, William Henry Chamberlain and Freda Utley. He seems to act as a magnet for those who hate Roosevelt, champion Joe McCarthy, attack unlimited academic freedom and take a dim view of the U.N. On the whole, he finds himself aligned with his authors' opinions, but he rarely hobnobs with right-wing VIPs. He sees himself as the champion of outcast authors, charges other publishers with deliberately ignoring books that express a far-right point of view. "It wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personal Publisher | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...churchmen, less sensitive about secularism, took a dim view of Vicar Lloyd's sermon. The Church of England Newspaper called it "baby talk." If the disestablishmentarians had their way, it warned, the position of evangelicals and liberals in the church would soon be "intolerable." Last week the Roman Catholic Herald surprised many a reader by siding with the low churchmen: "The tradition of Establishment has proved to be a powerful spiritual and moral factor in the country . . . Bound up with the Christian throne, the Church of England has . . . been a growing rather than a declining Christian influence . . . We find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Antidisestablishmentariasm | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Amid the staged welcomes for the Soviet visitors last week, Campbell knew at least one of India's millions of firm believers in astrology who took a dim view of the proceedings. He was a student who had gone to Russia and lost all hope for Communism. It was not Communist regimentation that disillusioned him. "No, no, far worse," said the student. "Those Russians are barbarians. A girl I met, who otherwise seemed charming and well educated, told me she thought astrology was nonsense!" Cordially yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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