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More exciting to astronomers than a flaming new comet is the Schmidt star camera. It will clearly photograph 500 times as much sky as the small area (1° in diameter) now recorded by ordinary reflector telescopes, yet it requires an exposure only one-tenth as long as the fastest astronomical lenses previously used. Equally valuable in aerial photography for its speed and wide, clear focus, the camera is being adopted by the U.S. Army...
Inventor of the camera, the late Bernhard Schmidt of Germany's Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory first described the device in 1931, but with uncooperative vagueness unusual in a scientist. U.S. astronomers-mostly amateurs-grasped Schmidt's hints, figured out how his lens, reflector and film must have been designed and assembled. When they had cleared up details in several experimental models, major U.S. observatories began building larger Schmidts. The biggest (24-36 inch) was dedicated last fortnight at Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Observatory, and others are nearing completion this week at Harvard, Mt. Palomar, Tonantzintla, Mexico...
...blitz. According to Cairo, the whole Axis force, "rather than face repetition [of the attack], decided to surrender unconditionally." When the smoke of battle cleared away, the British found themselves with 7,500 Axis prisoners and General Rommel's right-hand man, Chief Administrative Staff Officer Major General Schmidt. British losses were 60 dead, 300 wounded. The British rescued 1,150 of their own troops imprisoned in Bardia...
...girls of varying nationalities: French, German, Polish, English, and American, are fast friends before the holocaust. But stranded in Lucerne, without proper guidance, they let national ties separate them into dissident cliques until, with the unknowing cruelty and stupidity of the young, they bring tragedy to Erna Schmidt, the young German girl...
...tragedy of Erna Schmidt is the tragedy of all decent men and women, "the little people," who are blamed for the maniacal deeds of their rulers. The girls, in their patriotic fervor, try to focus all their unresolved thinking, all their unresolved thinking, all their hatred of Germany, upon her, trying to create of her an image of the Nazi regime...