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...evening around the Leuschner Observatory in Lafayette, Calif., a few enterprising rattlesnakes slither out to toast themselves on the asphalt parking lot, which retains the warmth of the sun long after the air has cooled. Inside, a 30-in. telescope begins a laborious computer-controlled search of the heavens, covering only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign...
Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
Gone was East Germany's boast that it could overtake West Germany in consumer-goods output this year. Goals were being set lower. The target of the East German economic growth rate for 1961 has been set at 7.2%, the lowest in years. Finally, drawing a deep breath, Leuschner announced the most painful cut of all. To speed up the flow of machine tools to the rest of the Communist bloc, he explained, East Germany's much ballyhooed aircraft factories are to be converted to making such workaday goods as hydraulic equipment, cutting-and-forming tools and conveyor...
When a new planetoid (or what may be a new planetoid) is discovered, the report is immediately sent to the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin, whence the news is broadcast to all observatories. When the nature of the new object is uncertain, Professor Armin Otto Leuschner of the University of California at Berkeley often is called upon. Professor Leuschner has developed short mathematical formulae to describe the courses of planetoids and comets. He matches the curves of the new orbits supplied him to the curves of his formulae. Last week he and other astronomers who had checked over his work were...
...airmail letter-recently received at the observatory from Professor Leuschner of the University of California transmitted observations made of the new planet Pluto at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Wisconsin, indicating that the ninth planet, discovered last March, is following the course predicted...