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...SHOWOFF. An unwelcome son-in-law crashes like a wayward meteor into the mundane sphere of the earthy Fisher household and sets it ablaze with his inflammatory manner. George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy is revived...
...Liller left Michigan for a year to head the Harvard Meteor Expedition in New Mexico. He is now a member of the International Astronomical Union, and chairman of the Committee on Astronomical Motion Pictures of the American Astronomical Society...
...Jupiter, they reason, the Jovian atmosphere may consist largely of red dye material. Because of white clouds of frozen ammonia crystals at the outer fringes of the atmosphere, the red atmosphere is largely invisible from above. But below the red spot, some scientists believe, there might be a giant meteor crater in the solid hydrogen surface of the planet. This crater, the NASA researchers suggest, may form a great vortex in the atmosphere that swirls the red-hued dye up through the cloud cover, thus creating Jupiter's distinctive red spot...
Argonne National Laboratory physicists have also examined iron meteor ites, air and sea water in a vain attempt to find quarks that had combined with stable atoms. Instead of being electrically neutral, they reasoned, such atoms would have fractional charges imparted by the quarks-enabling scientists to separate them out in an electric field and analyze them. Because quarks would more likely combine with heavier atoms, one scientist has suggested looking for quark-bearing atoms in oysters, which tend to concentrate the heavier elements in the seas...
...shows, got 75,000 people to sit on the grass and listen to the New York Philharmonic at night, and flooded Central Park on Sundays with bicyclists by banning cars. His "happenings" in the park inveigled hundreds to paint murals on canvas, fly kites for prizes and watch for meteor showers...