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Light pollution is a slightly less serious problem around the country's other major astronomy center, Tucson, Ariz., but astronomers there are already worrying about the glowing threat. The area's five major observatories-including Kitt Peak, which expects to unveil a 150-in. telescope next year-recently petitioned the town fathers to shield and filter all mercury-vapor street lamps, ban all but essential searchlights, and pave roads with blacktop instead of lighter, reflective concrete. Aware of the observatories' contributions to the local economy, the Tucson councilmen agreed to consider the requests...
...rocks, remains of ancient magnetic fields and the variations in the velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American...
...wedding plans are definitely off, said catlike Eartha Kitt, 40, in London last week. Then she added earthily, "I love him so much." Him was Ole Broen-dum-Nielsen, 32, a rich Danish manufacturer of sound equipment. She had announced her engagement the week before over a Birmingham radio station. At that time Ole's bemused reaction to the news was: "I have solved Miss Kitt's electroacoustic problems. But from that to marriage is a long jump...
...Ulla. At a maternity ward in North Wales, Actress Gayle Hunnicutt introduced her newly born and yet unnamed son to her husband, British Actor David Hemmings. And near London, where she opened at $84 a week in a nonsinging part in the Henry James play, The High Bid, Eartha Kitt took time off from her new role to play with her eight-year-old daughter Kitt...
...example -that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory...