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Matter of Time. The sun is far out on one of the spiral arms of the galaxy, about 25,000 light-years from its center. Technically, the astronomers can only see what no longer exists, or rather what existed 25,000 years ago, when the radio waves they observe left the galaxy's center. But in cosmological time, 25,000 years is only the blink of an eye, and astronomers, faced with the huge intervals of space, use light-years as simple measures of distance...
...under construction at Camden, N.J. The prime matter on Emelyanov's mind seemed to be peaceful atomic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. The two nations are now engaged, he said, in a "football game" of senseless competition, but they would get ahead faster if they built only one example of each expensive piece of apparatus (e.g., cyclotrons) and used it jointly. Last week Emelyanov signed an agreement with AEC Chairman John A. McCone which provided for exchange of scientists and information, and a cooperative effort in research on controlled thermonuclear energy...
Divorced. Glenn Ford, 43, cinemactor (Blackboard Jungle-); by Eleanor Powell, 47, dancing screen star of the '30s (Broadway Melody of 1936, 1938, 1940); after 16 years of marriage, one son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Rufus C. Holman, 82, Old Guard Republican Senator from Oregon who spent his one Senate term (1939-45) ranting against New Deal policies, foreign and domestic, lauded Hitler for destroying a conspiracy of "international bankers," in the course of a losing primary fight (1944) against Wayne Morse refuted a charge of antiSemitism: "Now why would I be antiSemitic? My own father was an Englishman. I have relatives in England"; of a heart attack; in Eugene...
Because most of them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...