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...Hulst showed slides of charts made by radio waves from the sun and several stars. Charts have been made, he said, of the furthest galaxy in the universe, a billion light years away. The radio telescope records this galaxy and others like it which no telescope can see because of intervening dust clouds...
Tonight's eclipse will be "prettier" than last April's, Federer expects. The moon is now at its furthest distance from the earth, and there will be more light within the shadow...
...taken over most hotels during the war, had turned almost all of them back again. Clothing was at last unrationed, but not petrol: visitors would get the 1948 allowance of 600 miles for the first two weeks, 400 for the second, plus enough gas to go to &. from their furthest destination. Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high. But the intellectual fare was good. The Shakespeare season was scheduled to open this month at Stratford on Avon, the Malvern Festival to be revived with a new Shaw play in July...
...stunt pilot of painting, Picasso, now 66, has made some of the fastest, furthest flights, most resounding forced landings and crashes in art history. He can also, as the new Verve demonstrates, make short, slow, sweet canoe trips when he chooses...
Garden of Eden. In the travel-bureau ads, Hawaii is the Garden of Eden. As far as oceanographers are concerned, it is a well-nigh totally submerged volcanic range spread across 2,000 miles of ocean. Its economic orbit includes six chief islands, of which Kauai is furthest west. The archipelago's commercial heart is the city of Honolulu (pop. 267,000), on Oahu, which is Eden-with a touch of Indianapolis...