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...heat-death" theory of Sir James Hopwood Jeans (TIME, Jan. 5) by announcing that, from his studies in thermodynamics, he believes the sun is growing smaller, is steadily losing mass by radiation. Now only three billion years old, in ten billion years it will have shrivelled to a tiny speck. At that time the cold earth together with the other planets, will no longer be held in their elliptical orbits by gravity, will have wandered off into space...
...relative position of "eye" to model airport is always the position of the plane over the actual airport. By television, the view of the model airport is transmitted to a small screen in the pilot's cockpit. The mechanical eye registers itself on the screen as a moving speck. That speck, the pilot knows, represents his plane, which he may guide safely over trees, fences, hangars, just as they appear on the screen. Elaborate though the scheme sounded, skeptics forbore scoffing, recalling Inventor Hammond's previous exploits:wireless control of torpedoes and ships; the multiple message carrier wave...
First heat--won by clapp (Stanford) second, Phillips (Rutgers); third, Shenk (Princeton). Time--5 min., 16 4-5 sec. Second heat--won by Ault (Michigan); second Ruddy (Columbia), third, Rabbitt (Dartmouth) Time--5 min., 27 2-5 sec. Five fastest to qualify Clapp. Phillips, Speck Ault Ruddy...
...resident host of the convention, President Daniel Walter Morehouse of Drake University, 53, famed astronomer, discoverer of the Morehouse comet. There is a story at Drake that when the ceiling was first completed and the lights turned on, Dr. Morehouse scanned the celestial charade, pointed to one bright speck among the thousands and exclaimed: "That star does not belong there. Take it out." But that, to scientists, is a prosaic anecdote when there are papers to be heard on such exotic subjects as "Respiration of Tomato Fruits," "Animal Ecology of Oaks," "Cytologic Changes Following Vasoligation of the Kidney...
...caddy was holding the pin. At the top of it fluttered a vivid yellow Hag with 18 in black velvet figures sewed on it. Overhead the little white clouds seemed to have stopped moving for the moment. Because of a tree, Espinosa could not see Jones or the white speck that was his ball. But presently the speck rolled out from behind the tree. It had to go up over a bump in the green. Then it dropped out of Espinosa's sight. A second later it dropped out of everyone's sight. The hushed gallery burst into roaring applause...