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...Crown) Brown the chance to mount a kind of two-front war novel in which the rasp of conflicting personalities can be heard above the whine of shells. The psychological combat in Kings Go Forth is sometimes emotionally blurred, though deeply felt, but the scenes of military combat flare across the pages as vividly as tracers stabbing the night...
...storm reached Boston one day too late to make Irish tempers flare again. The Boston St. Patrick's Day parade marched Saturday, only 21 days late, but several hours before the heavy snowfall began...
...flare, recorded last month, set a record for all such occurrences observed. The movies were taken with a coronograph, a special telescopic instrument, at the Air Force's Sacramento Observatory in New Mexico...
...When he got to his office, Simpson discovered that cosmic rays were bombarding the earth at a phenomenal rate of 3,000 per minute (normal rate for the area: 200 per minute). The activity, noted by observatories around the world, followed by less than 30 minutes a giant solar flare. It was the strongest indication so far that cosmic rays can originate in the solar system, and not only in outer space, as some scientists have believed...
...solar flare is a gigantic eruption of the turbulent gases in the sun. They usually occur in areas marked by sunspots and are followed by an increase in the cosmic radiation streaming toward the earth. Only five flares have been observed thus far, and last week's released the highest concentration of cosmic rays ever recorded. While scientists rushed to launch balloons loaded with photographic film and radio-recording equipment, the explosion was producing some weird and widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally...