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...test of relativity. But Physicist Joseph C. Hafele of Washington University in St. Louis and Astronomer Richard Keating of the U.S. Naval Observatory have apparently verified the clock paradox in a less dramatic fashion. Last October, carrying four extremely precise atomic clocks, they set off on two successive round-the-world plane trips to check the validity of Einstein's prediction (TIME, Oct. 18). Their scheme was elegantly simple. On the eastbound flight, their plane was traveling in the direction of the earth's rotation. Thus to an observer in outer space the airborne clocks would appear...
City and New York, he set out on a round-the-world trip in 1928. He intended to visit China for only six weeks, but the country captivated him, and he was outraged by the suffering he saw. In the course of covering China for the New York Sun and other publications, he gradually grew disillusioned with Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Snow decided that the mysterious rebels cooped up in the northwest by Chiang's troops were the wave of China's future...
...France, the world's longest, largest, fastest ocean liner, is in the Pacific this week, a month into a 91-day round-the-world cruise that includes calls at 27 ports. Aboard are some 1,150 passengers, mostly American or French. Occupying cabins or suites that cost from a minimum of $5,640 to $99,340, they have paid the French Line a total of over $11 million for the cruise, thus setting a new maritime record of sorts. TIME Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell was on board the France as it sailed between New York and Trinidad. Here...
...American girls are dirty, with no makeup and hair down to here, because they are doing their own thing." U.S. Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) was sounding off in Sydney, Australia-a stop on a round-the-world tour to gather material for his eighth book. "Society's chief curse," carped Uris, is the birth control pill. "Sex has become such an open commodity that it has lost a lot of the affection a man and a woman should have for each other. By the age of 24 or 25, girls have had the romance bashed out of them...
...conduct that test, Hafele, a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis, persuaded the U.S. Naval Observatory to lend him four extremely accurate atomic clocks, each valued at $17,000 and weighing 60 lbs. In addition, the Navy agreed to foot the bill ($7,400) for two round-the-world jet flights for Hafele, Keating (a member of the observatory) and the atomic clocks...