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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Magnificent Yankee, an award-winning adaptation of the Broadway play about the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny. With Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Rerun.
* Named for the portly, garrulous parish beadle of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, who, upon being told by a judge that a woman is subservient to her husband, asserted: "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass-a idiot."
Sweeping the Universe. Unlike low-frequency radio waves, which are reflected back by the earth's ionosphere, UHF transmissions continue traveling in a straight line out into the farthest reaches of space. And unlike standard television waves, which penetrate into space but tend to be drowned out by cosmic...
An Antenna Orchard. A receiver capable of picking up such distant signals is already within the technological capability of man, Oliver believes. He proposes an array of 10,000 dish antennas, each 100 ft. in diameter. With such an enormously sensitive radio telescope, he says, astronomers would be able to...
The cost would be astronomical-as much as $5 billion. But the instrument could advance the infant art of radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument...