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...Scary Thing. Black businesswomen often contend that the toughest prejudice that they face is not racist but sexist. Rosanna Wright, 30, president of Wright-Edlen Advertising Inc. in Los Angeles, takes the most optimistic view. "White men find it easier to work with a black woman than with a black man," she says. "They don't expect women to succeed, so they figure that they might as well help us along. Still, it's a struggle." Adds Shirley Barnes Kulunda, an account executive with Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson ad agency: "When white businessmen look...
Meeting at Harvard Observatory, a small group of leading U.S. astronomers agreed last week that a Swedish physicist, Bengt Edlen, had just thrown a good deal of light on the sun. It concerned the nature of the sun's corona-its turbulent halo of incandescent gases...
...Physicist Edlen demonstrated that the corona probably consists mostly of heavier elements like iron, calcium, nickel. This was a big surprise to astronomers. Surprise No. 2 was Edlen's calculation that this high excitation which causes such heavy atoms to give off new spectrum lines must indicate coronal temperatures...
Scientists had formerly assumed the corona to be scarcely hotter than the sun's surface, a mere 10,000° F. Physicist Edlen was so astonished by his own conclusions that he kept them secret for two years while he cleared up all reasonable doubts...
Verification seemed near last week. Harvard Observatory's Donald Howard Menzel amplified Edlen's theory with data from his Siberian eclipse expedition in 1936 and from Harvard's coronagraph observatory at Climax, Colo. Inside the sun, atoms are so highly ionized-having most of their electrons wrenched away from their nuclei-that they are not matter as we know it but rather invisible, sub atomic debris. These hot, degenerate gases are expanded, Menzel believes, by the force of great whirlpools within the sun. Therefore, streaming out of the sun's interior in occasional eruptions, the gases...