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During their frigid all-nighters on Palomar Mountain, Gene guides the telescope, shooting two pictures, 40 min. apart, of each patch of sky. After developing the film in the observatory darkroom, he turns the negatives over to Carolyn, who scans each set of two under her stereo microscope. If anything has moved against the background of fixed stars during the 40-min. interval, it appears to float in the eyepiece. If so, it is an asteroid or comet and might someday present a threat...
Like the objects he studies, Gene has made an impact. For his pioneering "research on Earth-approaching asteroids and comets" and other accomplishments, he was awarded the National Medal of Science last year. "Nobody believed Chicken Little when he said the sky was falling," Shoemaker says. "But occasionally the sky does fall, and with horrendous effects...
...sake of the good ol' US of A, then a message of racial unity had to be played up in numerous wartime morale-boosting movies. More diverse images of Blacks proliferated in Hollywood--major studios even made Black cast movies of their own (i.e. MGM's "Cabin in the Sky" (1943) directed by Vincent Minelli and starring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Ethel Waters)--so the independent race movie makers were squeezed out of the market, unable to compete with the slickness and polish of higher budget Hollywood films...
...highlight. For example, the original poster for "The Duke Is Tops" (1938) features Ralph Cooper's name emblazoned boldly across it and Lena Horne's name in the fine print at the bottom. In the re-release of the film after Lena Horne achieved stardom in "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather," the film is retitled "The Bronze Venus," and the posters focus on her now marketable name and face...
POLITICAL RENEGADE PAT BUCHANAN RAISED HIS UMBRELLA AGAINST the gray, damp sky last week as he surveyed the line of guests filing into the White House for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. "The last roll call," he said...