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...tourist-trodden Europe, many major summer music festivals have become the epicenter of a host of satellite festivals in their orbit. With the big events, e.g., Edinburgh, Salzburg, booked solid for months in advance, canny music shoppers are checking for the out-of-the-way festivals, even in the Mideast, which may be short on big-name talent but long on atmosphere. The smaller affairs can be found around almost any corner, and many offer intriguing programs...
...satellite will not be launched in its orbit for a considerable time to come (no one wants to say just when), but that is no reason why the teams that are training to track it should stare at an empty sky. An airplane flying at moderate speed at a moderate altitude can pretend, for research purposes, to be a satellite swinging around its orbit at 18,000 m.p.h. 300 miles...
...satellite will not be tracked by radio alone. Optical observations are needed to chart the orbit accurately, and the satellite moves so fast that the big, slow-moving telescopes of professional astronomers have little chance of holding it for long. So teams of amateur astronomers, organized into "Operation Moonwatch," will spot the satellite with widefield, low-power, low-cost telescopes...
...Civil Air Patrol airplane, towing at the end of 100 ft. of clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
...leaders in Congress, it remained for a Democrat to speak up in defense of a key article of Dwight Eisenhower's foreign-policy faith: the touchy matter of extending aid to Communist Poland, which has established its independence from Moscow but is still within the Soviet orbit...