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Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, who succeeded Harlow Shapley in 1953 as Director of the Observatory, leads the solar and ionosphere work. The Observatory has given up its part in the operation of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, Colorado, but still shares the newer Sunspot, New Mexico, site of the Air Force's Sacramento Peak Observatory. The instruments include the largest coronagraph in the world, and four super-Schmidt meteor cameras there and at the companion meteor station at Mayhill, New Mexico...
...Shapley believes that the report was just a way to get headlines. "Beyond the same tedious material that McCarthy floundered with, there in nothing new here," he said...
...Shapley did say that he was invited to become an officer of the Association of Scientific Workers, a prewar British group that became international, but he declined. An organization with a similar name, World Federation of Scientific Workers, is on the subcommittee list...
...subcommittee report listed seven international Communist front organizations as functioning at the present time. Shapley not only denied over having membership in any of them but claimed that he never had heard of most if them. "I don't even know what these organizations are," he claimed...
When contacted DuBois said that he did not know about the report and could not comment. Shapley and Mather also had not heard about it until informed by the CRIMSON. The information was published in U.S. News and World Report...