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...m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked a share of his earnings for a worthy cause: medical treatment for his frostbitten chin and knee...
...clouds off the far edge of the Milky Way. Most scientists have believed that the source of the signals is somewhere in the giant galaxy of some 200 billion stars that includes the sun and its planets. But a University of Maryland astronomer has a different idea. S. Christian Simonson III concludes in Astrophysical Journal Letters that the source is a separate pint-size galaxy-the Milky Way's closest cosmic companion...
Most galaxies have been discovered by conventional optical telescopes. Earth's new galactic neighbor was "discovered" in the classroom. Simonson had been puzzling over the hydrogen clouds' radio signals for several years. But it was during a recent lecture that the message came through. Simonson knew that frequency shifts in the radio signals from one of the clouds indicated that one side of the cloud was approaching the earth while the other was moving away. Suddenly he realized why. Such movement could only mean the presence of a great rotating mass. Said Simonson: "I knew right then...
...Simonson now hopes to aim an optical telescope at the rotating hydrogen cloud that is the core of the galaxy in an attempt to spot some of the 200 million stars that he estimates it contains; he will use those sightings to determine the galaxy's distance from earth. If the existence of the little galaxy is confirmed, it may be given a name. Until then, the hydrogen cloud will be known officially as 0627-15 (for its position in the sky). But the suspected galaxy, which has only one one-thousandth the mass of the Milky...
...Died. Lee Simonson, 78, theatrical-set designer, who pioneered a new kind of functional set design, which by substituting style and simplicity for useless clutter and opulence sought to frame the mood of a play without smothering it, thereby enhancing hundreds of productions (Liliom, Idiot's Delight), mostly for the Theatre Guild, of which he was a founder in 1919; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, New York...