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Cascade to Tashkent. War or no war, the July 9 eclipse was one of the best observed in history. The moon's shadow, falling on the earth at 6:14 a.m. at Cascade, Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury...
Mysterious Corona. Last week's eclipse, whose maximum duration (in Greenland) was 76 seconds, raised to a bare two and a quarter hours the total recorded observation of eclipses by modern science. Much of the scientific interest centers around the corona, which extends for millions of miles from the sun's surface. The corona,'most scientists think, is created by electromagnetic radiation and is probably related to the sun's magnetism and sunspots. Astrophysicists argue mildly among themselves about what its incandescent elements are (perhaps calcium, hydrogen, helium). The corona gives off a strange light, differing...
Premier Buhl's coalition Cabinet included two popular leaders: Minister of Foreign Affairs was John Christmas Moeller, underground leader; Minister Abroad was Henrik de Kauffmann, who, as Danish Minister to the U.S., brought Greenland into the war on the Allied side. The Cabinet also included three Social Democrats, two Communists...
...circuit longer than any other star, has heard every kind of enemy fire except snipers' bullets. She flew to the Mediterranean last March, shoved across Africa, wheedled her way to Anzio, rattled into Rome two days after it fell. In August she was off again, hopping around Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, getting lost in fogs, doing four-a-days in England. In October she reached France. Last week she was singing in hospitals near Paris; this week she was off to tour the Ninth Army...
...barren rocks and cliffside perches, now enable the "weather busters" of the A.T.C. to forecast the weather across the North Atlantic mile by mile, almost hour by hour. The communications network, radio ranges and home beacons shepherd the transports and the bombers across. The great bases at Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and the Azores provide refueling, maintenance and sometimes havens...