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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet tests. When a bomb is exploded on the ground or near it, says Ito, the shock waves spreading upward into the lower stratosphere are lengthened and delayed by air conditions there. Eventually they are refracted downward and reach microbarographs in Japan a few minutes behind the shorter waves that have passed directly through the lower atmosphere...
...Swiss sympathies lay. "The defendants' lives," said Dubois, "have not been happy . . . They learned political hatred, went from jail to jail." Then, although under Swiss law he could have demanded 20-year sentences on the murder charge alone, Dubois asked only six years' imprisonment for Beldeanu and shorter sentences for the other three Men of the Forest...
...TRANSPORT will be offered, to airlines in competition with U.S. craft. Russians are listing twin-jet TU-104 at $2,000,000, including spare parts, v. about $6,000,000 for U.S. Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. Russian transport is smaller, slower, shorter-ranged than U.S. planes and only slightly pressurized, but airmen expect dollar-short foreign airlines to buy some...
...hydrogen clouds are moving, as they generally are, the radio waves that come from them are slightly longer or shorter than the standard 21 cm. This difference allows radio astronomers to measure the speed of the clouds. It also allows them to "see through" a cloud that is hiding more interesting clouds. All they have to do is to set their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision...
...program of music by Monteverdi, including Il Ballo Dello Ingrate, and several shorter pieces, was given Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Fogg Museum. The depth and versatility of the Renaissance master was displayed in music covering a wide stylistic and emotional range, varying from poignancy, to austerity, to an ornate light-heartedness...