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...Shift. Then Drs. Jesse L. Greenstein of Caltech and Maarten Schmidt of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories decided to test a novel theory. When any object is moving away from the earth at a speed that is close to the speed of light, its light waves appear to slow down in frequency. Bright bands of the spectrum that are normally blue show up as yellow. Yellow bands become red. Stars have never been known to move fast enough to show such large light shifts, so Drs. Greenstein and Schmidt studied the strange spectra just as if they came from another...
...carving some unconventional gargoyles? Great idea, replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among his figures were Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, the wisest of the Three Little Pigs, and a Big (six feet tall) Bad Wolf...
...Maarten Henkes' (Leverett) loose and spontaneous pastel sketches of various city-and land-scapes are also quite refreshing. True, one has the feeling that one has seen very similar things before in travel books--but only in the very best travel books...
Dunster House: Robert E. Smith, Mark H. Mullin, Maarten Henkes, David G. Gullette, William H. Bailey, John F. McJennett, Arthur H. Stein...
...version of the visitor's reception. "The man's a pathological case," said the Air Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Heye Schaper. Said President Cornelis Kolff of the Dutch Aeronautical Association: "The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject." "The Queen," said Professor Maarten Rooy of the University of Amsterdam, "sat impassive-a hostess who does not want to offend a guest...