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When Weber first detected gravity waves, he was unable to determine where they came from. Now, using his identical devices at College Park, Md., and the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago (TIME, June 20), he seems to have closed in on the source. Roughly two-thirds of the waves were noted when the instruments were pointed toward the center of the Milky Way. Furthermore, the detectors picked up the waves even when they were on the opposite side of the earth from the galactic core. That phenomenon seemed to be still another verification of their existence: Einsteinian physics says that...
WILLIAM P. HEPBURN Annapolis, Md...
GEORGE ZINNEMANN Upper Marlboro, Md...
...ODOM FANNING Bethesda, Md...
...floor of the Neiman-Marcus department store?to buy a Fairchild 24 sports plane, and kept on flying through college days at Stanford, the University of Michigan and Yale Law School (LL.B., '40). During World War II, Halaby helped organize the Navy's test-pilot school at Patuxent River, Md., and flew the world's first combat jet, a captured German Messerschmitt 262. Later, he took off in the U.S.'s first operational jet, the Bell YP-59A, determined to fly higher than any pilot from the rival Army Air Corps had flown. "I reached 46,000 ft., and that...