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...fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena...
...most remarkable phenomena of the bull market has been the rash of stock splits, and the way they have sent stocks scooting up. Staid old American Telephone & Telegraph, for 73 years a holdout against splitting, soared 65 points from 202 within a few weeks after its 3-for-1 split announcement. So popular has splitting become that 80 major companies have registered or announced splits this year, and Wall Streeters feel sure that the old record of 181 splits (in 1955) will be topped before the year is out. While stock splits have gladdened many a stockholder, they have produced...
Various attempts had been made over the years to correlate magnetic storms with various terrestrial phenomena, and it was to this task that many IGY personnel devoted themselves. A few years ago, a Harvard meteorologist, the late H.H. Clayton, tried to establish a connection between earthly weather and solar activity. It appeared that during peaks of sunspot activity there tended to be more icebergs in northern latitudes, while in the Temperate Zone temperatures were subnormal and precipitation abnormal. It might be pointed out that during the great magnetic storm of February 10 the eastern and central parts of the United...
...most startling new connection between solar activity and terrestrial phenomena was made by men not officially under IGY organization, but working closely with IGY personnel at the Smithsonian. It was typical of a number of important finds; for many of IGY's most distinguished and valuable contributions have come from scientists not working under the Geophysical Year grants from the National Science Foundation. The whole concept of setting aside a year or eighteen months for special cooperation in the sundry fields of science was so broad a project that it touched people whose whole lives have been dedicated to research...
...directly associated with IGY, but working closely with IGY personnel in Cambridge, and a German working in the same field. The discovery--a startling correlation between the movements of five earth satellites and radio wave emission of the sun--is the most marked relation between solar and terrestrial phenomena ever found. The man behind this important find is a good-natured, gray-haired man named Luigi G. Jacchia. A meteor expert by trade, Jacchia may be found more often than not hunched over a drawing board plotting graphs in a small corner office at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory building...