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Lunan, whose article was the topic of a special meeting of the British Interplanetary Society in London last week, has reached back to the early days of radio for support for his contention. In the late 1920s, the Norwegian geophysicist Carl Stormer and a Dutch collaborator, Balthasar van der Pol, sent each other a number of short-wave radio messages. The purpose of the tests was to study a curious side effect. At times the radio signals were followed by mysterious echoes that were picked up as many as 15 seconds after the original transmissions. Indeed, the delays were...
Intrigued by Bracewell's musings, Lunan searched back into the original reports published by Stormer and Van der Pol, who had kept records of the varying intervals between the original signals and their echoes. On the chance that these variations might represent a code, Lunan began to make graphs from them. He used one axis of the graph as a measure of the amount of time each echo was delayed. The other axis indicated the position of each echo in the sequence of echoes. Plotting the points determined by those coordinates yielded no recognizable pattern. But when Lunan reversed...
...sure, the New Jewelers, who number among their loose-knit ranks such artists as Painter Roy Lichtenstein and Sculptors Pol Bury and Barbara Chase-Riboud, are also capable of work that crosses the thin borderline between mere decoration and art. Some pieces, such as Phyllis Mark's kinetic pendants, which suspend shimmering abstract forms within silver ovals, are even sold with stands so that they can be displayed as glittering tabletop art. Other works, like the slablike silver and Lucite pendant by Denver Sculptor Barbara Locketz, need no prop...
...fool, Wheat followed up with a nursery rhyme, The Crooked Man. Wheat reviewed Powell's career: twice voted the state's outstanding legislator, named Man of the Year by veterans' groups. He recalled how Powell's secretary, affectionately known as "Little Bit," accompanied the old pol on his last trip and tried, unsuccessfully, to spirit away the shoeboxes before authorities discovered them. Wheat wound up with a favorite Powell quote:"There's only one thing worse than a defeated politician and that is a broke one"- a condition Powell steadfastly avoided. The church collection...
...Western primary McGovern's inability to reach the black vote promised to present more of a problem in the upcoming primaries in states where the black population was large enough to swing the election. In fact the problem of McGovern`s poor relationship with black voters and pol`s was thrown into high relief when he lost the Ohio- primary...