Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunlight & Shadow...
Totality will last three minutes, 48 seconds-the longest solar blackout since 1940 and until 1955. The National Geographic Society and the U.S. Army Air Forces, which are running the show, believe that this will be the best observed eclipse in history. When the moon's shadow races across Bocayuva, there are many questions to be asked-some new, some...
Hole in the Sky. A comparatively new problem is the effect of the moon's shadow on the ionized layers in the earth's upper atmosphere. These layers have a profound influence on radio transmission: they bounce some radio waves back and allow others to pass through. Since the ionized layers are caused by ultraviolet light from the sun, they presumably change their character when the moon's shadow knocks a hole in the sun's radiation. Long before the eclipse, begins, the scientists will have radar-like radios of various wavelengths trained upon each layer...
...eclipse on cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are not supposed to come from the sun, but they may be influenced somehow by its sudden blackout. Airborne, too, will be Army meteorologists, watching temperature changes in the atmosphere at all levels as the moon's cold shadow sweeps across Brazil. If the weather is good, they ought to get a gorgeous silhouette picture of the earth's satellite...
...spectacle was too much for many antiCommunists. Constant defeat at the hands of an enemy whose might was plainly visible, and yet elusive as a shadow, put a crippling psychological strain on Communism's enemies. Not all were driven as far as Giuseppe Rapelli, Christian Democratic Labor leader who tried to break Communist Giuseppe di Vittorio's iron grip on the labor unions, and is now in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But all seem paralyzed to ineffectually, a prey to fear and doubt...