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Jansky's work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance...
Even the finest optical telescope has yet to supply an answer, so Astronomer David D. Cudaback peered beneath the moon's surface with a vastly different type of instrument. Using the 32 dish-shaped antennas of a Stanford University radio telescope, Dr. Cudaback spent three months measuring the moon's own electronic transmissions. He traced the variations in the moon's electrical characteristics, tracked its composition through yards of abstruse equations and decided that its outer surface is just barely denser than the empty space around...
...Bette Davis. "I've brawchoo yaw dinnah," she drawls as only Bette can drawl, then smiles like an unsanitary crocodile as she sets a tray on the table. Joan smiles weakly back at her, wheels across to the table, takes the lid off the main dish and-"EEEEEEEEEK...
...center of the dish lies a big fat juicy roast...
...tune of "Why powdered potatoes?" 315 students answered 13 questions covering everything from fresh fruit to variety in vegetables. Instant mashed potatoes or "library paste" took top honors as the most undesirable dish on the house menu...