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...solar system may be the most important finding so far made by IRAS, a joint effort of the U.S., Britain and The Netherlands that was launched last January. When Astronomers H.H. Aumann of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the project for NASA, and Fred Gillett of Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona aimed the instrument at Vega, they detected an unexpectedly strong flood of infrared radiation, or heat. (IRAS is the first orbital telescope that operates in the infrared frequency range, taking the temperature of the various components of the universe...
...responsible researcher foresees such catastrophic consequences from El Chichón. But there are troubling signs. A huge smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud...
There probably would be less complaint if amplification were not so apparent-and so annoying. But it usually is both. The sound system of the 1978 Eartha Kitt musical Timbuktu! sounded like a tinny radio with failing batteries. The Pirates of Penzance, which has a better system, is nonetheless obviously miked. Then there are the mistakes that give soundmen high-volume nightmares. When Dreamgirls opened, an actor's body microphone jammed another, set on the same frequency, in a neighboring theater, where The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was playing. (A wireless body mike, hidden on a performer...
...producer whose 13 New Faces revues helped launch the careers of scores of stars; after a long illness; in New York City. Sillman's satirical shows introduced such hit tunes as Love Is a Simple Thing, and such performers as Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Imogene Coca and Eartha Kitt...
They knew that if they looked at a wide enough stretch of sky, the haphazard distribution of heavenly bodies would even out into a vast and more or less regular pattern. "Our idea of a small distance is 1 million light-years," explains Astronomer Paul Schechter of Kitt Peak. "At that distance it looks like a very lumpy universe. But as you step back, the universe begins to look very smooth...