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...instrumentation, might well have held the whole project up for months or years-had not Wernher von Braun, during most of the period that he was barred from engaging in satellite work, been in what he calls "silent coordination" with Caltech's William Pickering and the University of Iowa's James Van Allen in planning Explorer and its instruments...
...interpret. Apparently the average increase above the intensity at the surface of the earth-twelve times-is about what was expected. More interesting are hints that cosmic rays in space may fluctuate considerably with time, and vary from place to place. Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa says that a radio station in Tokyo that was picking up the satellite's signals last week noted a sudden increase in cosmic rays to as much as five times above normal. If this observation proves correct, it will be a landmark in cosmic ray study...
...Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which developed the upper stages of the launching vehicle, says that the orbit is almost exactly the intended one. The only deviation is that the satellite goes a little higher than was expected. "A splendid orbit," says Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, who designed the instrument package for the satellite. "We are delighted with it." He points out that the principal scientific purpose of the Explorer is to study cosmic rays at various distances from the earth, and it could not do this so well if its orbit were more nearly circular...
Across nine states, from Texas to Iowa, some 1,300 gas stations in the next few weeks will break out in a bright new color scheme-the shiny blue-and-white gas pumps of a bustling Belgian-born newcomer, American Petrofina. The first major foreign investor in U.S. oil since Shell, Petrofina has grown from only a plan on paper to $100 million in assets in less than two years, now feels strong enough to put its own "Fina" brand name on the gas stations it has picked...
...evening gown behind a poolside screen and reappeared in a bathing suit, an advertising-agency man with a sharp eye on rehearsals objected that the strapless suit looked too much like underwear. "This stuff may be O.K. for Havana," he said, "but how about East Cupcake, Iowa? That's where I'm from. I carry it around up here in my head." Somehow, on a Havana Sunday morning. Wardrobe's Consuelo Gana managed to produce a selection of a dozen more bathing suits to the measure of East Cupcake. And when the show's Louis (Gordon...