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Another possible effect of the Zwicky discovery may be to change astronomers' ideas about distances in space. If it turns out that the new-found bridges wind thickly among the nearer galaxies, they must dim the light from galaxies behind them, making them appear more distant than they...
Using the radio-astronomy telescope; an instrument which measures the hydrogen content in the space between stars, Harold Ewen and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, began revising former calculations in the expansion of the nearer galaxies during March...
Building on his solid base of labor and Italian support, DiSalle is aiming his campaign at independents and liberal Republicans. Through the medium of 17-hour television "talkathons," he points out he is nearer to both Eisenhower and Stevenson's foreign policy views than his opponent, and asks for "Ike and Mike" ballot splitting. Domestically, DiSalle drums on Bricker's voting record against rent control, which recent rent hikes in the state have made a sensitive issue...
...convention time came nearer, and after Ike got the Republican nomination, the pressure on Stevenson to say yes or no became almost unbearable. In Minnesota, asked what he would do if he got the nomination, he gave a hoot of nervous laughter and said: "I guess I'd just shoot myself." Two days before the convention opened, in a more serious tone, he told his own Illinois delegates not to vote for him, saying that he did not aspire to the presidency and was "temperamentally, physically and mentally" unfitted for the job. Told of a Washington story that President...
...average pictures on the market. Those perennial big-grossers, Abbott & Costello, recently released Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd. Last week Hollywood studios had released, were filming or planning more than 20 sea pictures, ranging from documentaries (e.g., Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us) to history (e.-g., Nearer My God to Thee, a story of the Titanic). But most of them were just wet westerns-The Golden Hawk, City Beneath the Sea and Yankee Buccaneer...