Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swirling 4,000 to 6,000 miles above the sun's surface, showed up in the photographs as white blotches above the dark areas of lower-altitude gas. Aided by photographs taken in two other wave lengths of visible light from ground stations in California, New Mexico, Michigan and Washington, D.C., the Aerobee's photographs give astronomers a sort of three-dimensional picture of the violent energy processes in the sun's atmosphere. Eventually, such rocket photography may become so refined that meteorologists may be able to make daily solar weather reports as a matter of routine...
...travelers who reached it came back with reports of a fabulous treasure-trove of art hidden behind its 50-ft.-thick walls. But no one was allowed to photograph or even to catalogue it. Then last year a team of scholars and technicians, jointly sponsored by Princeton, Michigan, and Alexandria universities, got permission to make the first complete record of Mount Sinai's treasures. This week TIME publishes an unprecedented sampling of the expedition's finds...
...desire to find the form of taxation most palatable politically. Most state and local taxes are thus make-shift, time-serving devices, and as the need for expenditures grows greater, many cities and states are paying the price in financial crises like those in New York City and Michigan. Until the politicians stop trying to please everyone at once and instead institute broad tax reforms and increases (as Rockefeller has started to do in New York State), the financial situations of state and municipal governments are likely to remain precarious...
...outfielder in his college days at Michigan State, Dr. Briggs left nothing to chance in his experiments. He measured speed and spin in the National Bureau of Standards wind tunnel. For live experiments, Dr. Briggs measured the curve-throwing ability of the Washington Senators' staff in Griffith Stadium, found the best of them could break off a curve at 1,600 r.p.m. Presumably, better pitchers on other clubs could approach 1,800 r.p.m., achieve the maximum curve. As for speed, 100 ft. per sec. is well within the range of a big-league pitcher. Fastest pitch ever recorded...
Moreover, Romney has a more subtle factor working in his favor. The success of his long crusade has made him a symbolic figure-a sort of Johnny Appleseed of the auto industry. He is besieged by pleas for help, love letters, poetry, suggestions that he run for Governor of Michigan or President of the U.S. Wrote a Los Angeles admirer: "With you as President, America would once again become a great power...