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Golda Meir, for the time being at least, appears to have a lock on the Premier's office. She is the first choice for that job of 52% of Israelis. Dayan is a distant runner-up: 20% make him their first choice for Premier and 31% their second choice. Allon got first-choice votes from 8% and second choice from 21%. Political observers note, however, that on the day Premier Levi Eshkol died two years ago, Golda Meir rated poorly in a poll of possible successors...
California, in particular, is now becoming an astronomical disaster area. The blinding glow from nearby Los Angeles, for example, has rendered Mount Wilson Observatory's 100-in. telescope useless for the kind of observations of distant galaxies that once made it world-renowned. Not far behind is the 120-in. Lick Observatory reflector atop Mount Hamilton, which is rapidly being swamped by the incandescence of the San Francisco Bay Area's expanding cities and towns. Even the 200-in. Hale mirror on Mount Palomar-the world's largest telescope-may be seriously imperiled before the decade...
...Glare. With a million times the light-gathering power of the unaided eye, the giant telescopes are extremely sensitive to the slightest glare in the sky. Even the light from a city 50 miles away can blot out the dim specks produced on a photographic plate by a distant galaxy or quasar. Smog adds to the astronomer's headache; by scattering ground light in all directions, tiny smog particles can greatly increase the glare over an observatory. Not only the amount, but also the character of the light can affect a telescope's usefulness. Increasingly, mercury-vapor street...
Discussing distant goals, Cleary said, "It will be a few years before I am even close to Cooney's 300-victory mark. I just hope to be somewhere around that total some...
Optimistic fans were disappointed two years ago when Harvard blasted its opposition in almost every game but finished a distant third in the Eastern League because of poor pitching depth. But there was new hope for the freshman team, while losing only one game, had outslugged their predecessors and averaged nearly 12 runs per game...