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...more scientists have become convinced that the moon occasionally generates light of its own. During periods of intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...test his theory, Sun borrowed samples of meteorites believed to be similar to those on the moon. Using liquid nitrogen, he cooled them to-320°F. and bombarded them with high-energy electrons that simulated the impact of solar-wind protons for a 14-day period. No glow was produced. When Sun removed the liquid nitrogen and rapidly heated the samples, however, they began to give off vivid and pulsating light. The Westinghouse physicist is now working on further laboratory tests to support his theory. He believes that it can also be confirmed by careful telescopic analysis of light...
Ageless, Endless. Recently, Wyeth has focused on portraits. His people are no longer elements of landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well. As his subject matter has become increasingly human, his painterly light seems to glow within his subjects rather than wash them from the outside. Wyeth himself believes that two of his recent works (see opposite) are his finest portraits...
...beaten-track locale for cold war suspense novels, possibly because few Western authors can fight through the Red tape to gather local color. Michael Frayn won entree by studying as an exchange student at Moscow University. As a result, his sprightly book shines with an eerily realistic glow...
...city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic. The author is neither moralizing nor sentimental, and his book approaches no more than an old man's reminiscent glow. This is how Vienna was. These are the people who coursed its cobbled streets under the gaslights-denizens of a far less frenetic age. Von Doderer has no illusions: he knows they are all dead, along with their time, but the fact cannot sadden a memory whose gaiety is as imperishable...