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...Cambridge area, the ?? will cover some 96 per cent of ??sun-not quite enough to see the ??s faint corona, the shifting halo ??onized gases that extends millions miles from the sun's surface. But ?? Nantucket Island, the eclipse will match totality for about two minutes. ?? the sky is clear, thousands of New England sun-watchers will crowd the ?? antiquate ferry or fly out to the island ??or those two minutes. Executive Air-??nes regularly scheduled flights have been sold out for weeks, and several ?? ter airlines have assigned their en-??re flees to ferrying eclipse-watchers ??om mainland points...
ANNULAR and partial eclipses of the sun are not very interesting to scientists because the remaining two or three per cent of the ?? disc completely drowns out the coro?-a halo that is 500,000 times fain??er than the rest of the sun. It is possible to study the corona without an ??clips by using a coronagraph-a met?? disc held in front of telescope to create an artificial eclipse. However, interplanetary dust and sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere obliterate the corona's fine details...
...international identity crisis. In a 28-year career that began when she was nine, Pet Clark has been Britain's Shirley Temple, a French yé-yé singer and songwriter more popular at one point than Edith Piaf, and Hollywood's heiress to the fallen halo of Julie Andrews. Along the way, Petula has sold 25 million records in five languages...
During the 3 minutes of the eclipse's totality, Jay M. Pasachoff 63, research associate in Astrophysics, will photograph the spectrum of the sun's corona-the shifting white halo of ionized gases that extends millions of miles from the sun's surface. These visible light spectra will provide a detailed picture of the chemical and physical events in the corna...
Perhaps the greatest violence of Soldier Blue is done offscreen-to Director Nelson's image. Five years ago, a righteous Hollywood organization entitled Operation Moral Upgrade awarded him a halo-shaped pin for his work on Lilies of the Field, which featured Sidney Poitier and a gaggle of fluttering nuns. "Apparently," Nelson says, "Mrs. Van New Kirk, the head of the group, recently saw an article about this film. I got a horrible letter drumming me out of the corps. I am no longer an angel. I consider it an honor...