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...antenna was used to measure the effective temperatures of someof the planets and to map the center of our galaxy at 5,000 megacycles. Operations ended in September, however, because rain water leaked into the equipment at the focus of the giant dish, and caused the receiver to mal-function. Once this equipment is made watertight, work at the station should proceed rapidly. Dr. Maxwells hopes to make extensive studies of individual sources of celestial radiation. With over 100 sources to be examined, the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station will not be idle during the Year of the Quiet...
...Sailplanes are generally safer than powered planes-there is no risk of fire, and landing speeds are lower-but soaring is no sport for the fainthearted. In full view of 1,000 onlookers at Junin, veteran Dutch Pilot Arie Breunissen dived into a ther mal too quickly and watched in horror as the left wing of his fragile, British-built Skylark disintegrated under the strain. Swooping into a tight spin, the stricken craft plummeted earthward. Just 500 ft. above the ground, Breunissen bailed out. Shaken, and his face cut by his shattered Plexiglass canopy, he parachuted to the ground-arriving...
...broke into national view in 1946 with his first play. Quoat-Quoat, a story of the individual's search for fatality. Since then, he has written 19 more plays, the best known of which, Le Mal Court, may soon be produced in the U.S. as either a straight play or a musical...
...During these lean years of Down Under tennis, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper still managed to win the Davis Cup in 1957; they might have repeated in 1958 if Peruvian Alex Olmedo had not carried the U.S. to victory. Both turned pro with varying success: Cooper has done well, but Anderson is erratic and unspectacular. They were ably replaced as Davis Cuppers by Fraser, Laver and Emerson...
...other no-pants dogs at the Westminster. Awaiting her turn, she sat patiently in a tiny cell in the Garden basement. In the ring, she coolly outperformed 70 members of her own breed and a batch of other dogs classed in the "toy group'': Chihuahuas, affenpinschers. Mal tese, Italian greyhounds, griffons...