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...metal sphere, 20 inches in diameter, will be visible only during twilight hours, and to the naked eye only if the viewer has exceptional vision...
Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy and director of the Smithsonian Observatory, is supervising the entire project of tracking the satellite's path. He said yesterday that since the sphere will attain a maximum height of 800 miles, it will be visible in this area, although it will probably go no further north than Philadelphia...
Karl Henize, the Smithsonian astronomer in charge of the photographic tracking of the sphere, said that the satellite would be seen to the South, at an average elevation of 65 degrees from the horizon...
Much as India's Nehru may hate the term, his government has always regarded the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal (pop. 8,500,000) as an Indian "sphere of influence." After the Chinese Communists moved into Tibet in 1950, Nehru said flatly: "The defense of Nepal is important to the security of India...
Moreover, the Japanese do not seem eager to assume any sort of leadership in the Far Eastern sphere. They have not yet recovered their self-confidence, Reischauer says, and they tend to leave the problems for others to solve. They tend to talk, he said, in terms of huge, outside forces--the U. S. and Russia, for example--over which they have no control...