Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAY the Shark is a middle-aged tourist hypnotized by the lure of Las Vegas, and his fling at the gaming tables provides the atmospheric opening section of this week's Essay on gambling. Ray the Shark is better known as Ray Kennedy, associate editor of TIME. As the Essay's author, he could not resist the rare opportunity of writing himself into a story. The first thing that struck him during several days of research in Las Vegas was the lavishness of the accommodations. Checking into a motel with his wife Patsy, he was offered a room...
...Kennedy likes to think of himself as Ray the Shark, Senior Editor Edward Hughes has at times been referred to as Ed the Eagle. A licensed pilot, he is a dedicated weekend flyer. It was Hughes who inspired and helped report our recent story [July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf...
Quasars, most astronomers agree, are the oldest, brightest, farthest and most mysterious celestial objects known to man. To this list of superlatives, scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have now added another. After recording X rays emanating from quasar 3C 273-the first time that a quasar has been identified as an X-ray source -Physicists Herbert Friedman and Edward Byram have determined that 3C 273 is also the most powerful X-ray emitter ever discovered...
...latest addition to quasar knowledge was obtained by instruments carried aboard an Aerobee rocket shot from White Sands, N. Mex., in May. Soaring above the atmosphere, which absorbs X rays before they reach the earth, the rocket detected X-radiation from quasar 3C 273, from a giant elliptical galaxy called M 87, and from three locations in the sky where no celestial objects are visible. The recorded radiation from the quasar was only one-thousandth as great as that from a starlike object called Sco XR-1-which appears to be the brightest X-ray emitter in the sky (TIME...
Astronomer Friedman would like next to monitor 3C 273's X-ray luminosity to determine if it varies as widely as the quasar's visible light. He would also like to get an X-ray spectrum, which might help unlock more of the quasars secrets. Either procedure would require a longer look at quasar X rays than can be obtained during the fleeting minutes that an X-ray telescope can be rocketed above the earth's atmosphere. The answer, Friedman says, is an X-ray telescope in an orbiting satellite or, better yet, one on the surface...