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...Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, will argue that "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner." In Emerson Hall D, J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will defend the place of "Humanities in the Age of Science...
These include "The Soviet Union Today," with Merle Fainsod, professor of Government; Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology; Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government. The second, "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner," will be given by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
Scientists attending the conference will hear Menzel's work as one of fifteen papers to be read by distinguished astronomers, telling of recent progress in their various fields...
Scientists have known for some time that radio noise originating in outerspace disturbances forms a continuous spectrum of signals on earth. Menzel's chart of this spectrum is based on observations by astronomers throughout the world and provides the first complete guide to these noises. It should give valuable aid to operator of radio, television and radar, whose equipment is often disturbed by these outer-atmosphere signal sources...
Thomas Gold, professor of Astronomy, will join Menzel in addressing the conference on "Solar Whistlers," a phenomenon resulting from lightning dicharges. Gold will also speak on "Interstellar Hydrogen." Gerald S. Hawkins, research associate at the Observatory, will also give a talk...