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...scientists are giving the top of the atmosphere a going-over from a dozen different angles. Cameras photograph the aurora (caused by particles from the sun), and other sensitive instruments measure the faint glow of the night sky. Radio experts keep track of the yearly, daily, hourly and minute-by-minute changes in the layers of electrified air that are so important to long-distance communication...
...main part of the book. Like most allegories, the story suffers from the sometimes near-ludicrous clash of the concrete and the symbolic. It is a measure of Novelist Lagerkvist's great narrative powers that he manages to keep his story alive in the strange twilight glow between reality and unreality...
...York City suburb of Mount Vernon, pretty, brunette Christine Nystrom had the glow of a model 16-year-old. "Of our four children, Chrissy was the one who could make a friend," said her father, tall, greying Fred Nystrom, co-founder and vice president of a construction machinery firm. "Whatever she does, she does well," added the pastor of Mount Vernon's First Presbyterian Church, who supervised Christine's work as president of the interchurch Youth Council. "A lovely, attractive girl, and always dependable," said the dean of girls at A. B. Davis High School, where Christine...
...Touch & Glow? In Washington, D.C., FBI agents gingerly arrested Brown Coleman and James Thompson while the two were loading into Coleman's car 20 lead bars stolen from the Naval Research Laboratory (where they were used as shields for experimental reactors), made a quick check, happily discovered the loot was not radioactive...
...scared to speak, our allies are so scared that they are all speaking at once. Prime Minister Mac-millan's recent suggestion of an East-West non-agression pact is tangible evidence that the glow of confidence and unity of purpose permeating the NATO meeting was artificial and ephemeral. In itself, Macmillan's idea is harmless and could even prove worthwhile if it stimulates eventual top-level disarmament discussion...