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Photographers who remain in Boston during the event (where the eclipse will only be 94.4 per cent of maximum), can record two interesting phenomena. By making a series of exposures at five-minute intervals on the same film, one can obtain a record of the partial phases...
Those who are willing to fight the traffic to and from Maine this weekend might have clear sky for the 50 seconds of totality. If so, the two interesting solar phenomena that can be photographed are Bailey's Beads, which occur for a second just before and just after totality when light breaks through the valleys on the moon's rim, and the solar corona...
...astronauts all must be skilled test pilots. The answer from NASA officials: use of test pilots permits the elimination of space-consuming automatic equipment in the cramped capsules. But some authorities are convinced that young scientists would be far more effective in observing and analyzing unexpected space flight phenomena.-Says Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Senate Space Committee: "The Russians have proved to us that you don't have to have 20 years of test-pilot experience before you can handle one of these capsules...
...advertising than Vogue or Harper's Bazaar last year even though it missed an entire month's publication. Among cloak-and-suiters it is known-half affectionately and half derisively-as "The Girdle Gazette." It is the New York Times Sunday Magazine, one of the more curious phenomena of U.S. journalism...
From London, the mighty Thunderer was heard from. From its august heights, and with the gravity of its 175 years, the Times of London took notice of TIME'S 40, and found the magazine as deserving of good wishes as any of "all the new phenomena of that wonderfully prolific period of the 1920s." TIME looks easy to imitate, wrote the Times, but the imitators usually do not last: "Only those who have been close to TIME know how highly original a production each issue is, and the prodigious-some might say ridiculous-expenditure of thought, money, and energy...