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...View. On swept the shadow at 3,000 m.p.h. The Shetland Islands were covered with storm clouds, but southern Britain was reasonably clear, and millions of Britons saw the partial eclipse. Most spectacular view of totality was from 21 Canberra jet bombers of the R.A.F., which flew so high (50,000 ft.) that the shadow looked like an oval black shape in the cloud deck far below...
...morning of June 30, early risers in most of the U.S. and Canada, weather permitting, may see at least a partial solar eclipse. The path of totality (i.e., the ground covered by the tip of the moon's pointed shadow) will start in northeastern Nebraska, where the sun will be blotted out by the moon just as it rises. A little later, at 5:08 a.m., C.S.T., the shadow will sweep at 3,000 m.p.h. over Minneapolis, where totality will last 1 min. 10 sec. Then it will cross Lake Superior and head for Labrador, just grazing the southern...
...Hayden Planetarium, the total eclipse can be shot with fast black and white film using a one-second exposure and f/4·5· Color film calls for one second and f/2. These settings will show the horizon faintly as well as silhouettes of nearby objects. The partial eclipse requires a filter (Kodak neutral density 4.0), 1/100 seconds and f/16 for black and white film...
...Partial Progress. First off, he told them that he was delighted that the Citizens for Eisenhower leaders had revived their 1952 campaign organization to get behind pro-Eisenhower candidates for Congress in the 1954 election. "The legislative program that you and I support," said he, "is . . . designed to protect our freedoms, to foster a growing, prosperous peacetime economy, and to fulfill the Government's obligations in helping solve the human problems of our citizenry." Despite "highly publicized distractions," the program has made considerable progress on Capitol Hill. Congress has moved appropriations bills faster than usual, has supported Administration moves...
...fare he had expected on arrival and felt neglected until practice on Monday. While a prosaic southerner who expected to be beaten and scalped in the high tradition of southern universities found he could go to his room unmolested. And an independent scholar noted the air of partial aloofness, "a considerable and soothing reserve, a refreshing forbearance from prying into the affairs of others...