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Flat Space? Some of the astronomers were concentrating on the distant galaxies -or on space itself. One space-gazer (Señor Luis Enrique Erro of the Mexican Astrophysical Observatory) began to throw serious doubts on Einstein's theory of "curved space." Einstein's doctrine, applied to study of the distant galaxies, which seem to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, had made the universe appear too young, said Señor Erro. It seemed only a billion years old by Einsteinian reckoning. But geologists have pretty well proved that even the earth is twice...
...Floor-Gazer. Iko Hashimoto testified. He had sighted the Indy at a range of 11,000 yards (in such visibility, the prosecution charged, the cruiser should have been zigzagging); her straight course had given Hashimoto an easy torpedo solution -so easy, he said, he had not bothered to use "human torpedoes" (guided by suicide pilots). He had scored three hits-Hashimoto was very professional and calm. The Indy had gone down with the loss of 880 American lives...
...factor was political; general elections were near and it took no crystal gazer to detect what the people wanted...
...uninhibited, involved comedy directed in the Preston Sturges manner by playful Elliott Nugent, the film casts Paulette as a shapely Texan who loses a beauty contest and somehow becomes a crystal gazer. This puts her in a practically perfect position to confuse her rival (Virginia) and convince her quarry (Ray) that his destiny wears red hair. These shenanigans occasionally achieve a quality of amiable screwiness...
...heavenly body, to be called Whipple Comet in honor of the Harvard star-gazer, is now as close to the earth as it will over come, so that it can be seen on a clear night with the aid of an ordinary pair of field glasses. It is said to have a tail some three million miles long...