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None of the Loesser score is truly bad, and the middling level of the music is sustained throughout. The most satisfying songs are written for vocal trios or quartets or the entire ensemble. Probably the best, which may well be disk-jockey bait, is "Standing on the Corner, Watching the Girls Go By." Other good tunes include "La Pudanza," "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance," and "I don't Know Nothing About Her." The rest are generally dull, and because the show has no pretension to comedy, the production must lean heavily on its music...
Most astronomers now think that the sun and its planets were once a great cloud of gas and dust which gradually condensed around a central mass. That mass became the sun. As the gas cloud grew smaller and denser, some of its material spun out to form a flat disk. After a billion years or so, the disk broke up into loose blobs called protoplanets. Each of these contracted independently, forming its own core. Any material left outside eventually turned into satellites revolving around a planet...
Actual photographic reproductions of the line is done through a spinning glass matrix disk, bearing the type characters. On one side of this disc is a light, and on the other the film. Once a line is completed, the light starts picking out the right characters on the disc and projecting them on to the film. This is a very rapid process: the disc on the latest Photon machine, the "200" series, spins through eight revolutions per second, picking out one character each time...
...Merle F. Walker and Robert Hardie, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., measured Pluto's light with photoelectric apparatus. They found that it varied slightly in brightness and that the variations repeated themselves regularly, as if dark markings were passing across Pluto's disk. The period turned out to be 6.390 earth days, so Walker and Hardie concluded that this is the length of Pluto...
...Lumicon will get its most spectacular astronomical test when Mars comes near the earth late next summer. Astronomers have always been baffled and infuriated by Mars; even in their biggest telescopes it looks like a small, fuzzy, orange disk that jiggles around as irregularities in the earth's atmosphere affect the path of its light. Once in a great while the jiggling stops, and for an enchanted instant Mars stands still, its surface covered with fine and fascinating detail. These intervals of good "seeing," however, do not last long enough to be photographed, and the human eye-brain combination...