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...airbase. Marine patrols had been sent out on almost daily probes around the peninsula's five coastal villages, all named Van Tuong, and last week a recon company brought back word that a large new force of V.C. had just arrived from the south. Within 24 hours, "Operation Starlight" had begun...
KANSAS CITY, MO., Starlight Theater: She Loves Me spins its cotton candy romance, with John Gary...
...many years astronomers assumed that scintillation was due to variations in the refraction of starlight as it passed through turbulent regions of the earth's atmosphere. But they were never able to establish the existence of a particular region or the exact meteorological conditions involved in the effect. An experiment by the Sandia Corp. of Albuquerque, N. Mex., reports Physicist Craig C. Hudson in Nature, has finally confirmed the occurrence of the twinkle layer in the outer atmosphere...
...question still has scientists stumped. The variations in the wind speed on the twinkling layer were no greater than in nearby regions. In a follow-up experiment now in progress, the scientists plan to make their next check on temperature and pressure fluctuations as possible causes of twinkling starlight...
KANSAS CITY, MO., Starlight Theater: Alltime trouper Bert Parks as Music...