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...other summer companies are within reach of the fevered Manhattanite who is looking for an evening's fun in the country. Long Island is dotted with them from the Red Barn Theatre at Locust Valley to the John Drew Memorial Theatre at East Hampton. There are also the Starlight Theatre at Pawling, the Maverick Theatre at Woodstock, the Country Theatre at Suffern, the Reginald Goode Theatre at Clinton Hollow. Upstate and outstate the summer theatre season becomes even more substantial. At Ithaca performances will be given by summer students of Ithaca College and of Cornell's University Theatre...
...track of the invisible flow of cosmic rays through the sky, announced an inexplicable explosion of cosmic rays coming from a certain point in the heavens. Last week at that point in the sky a new star was seen to explode brightly. Hoping that the cosmicray burst and the starlight originated in the same explosion, Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology last week explained: "We have suspected for some time that cosmic rays travel faster than light and this may prove it. ... A colossal discovery...
...shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body imposed a curvature on the space around it, starlight would bend as it passed by the sun. Ordinarily stars close to the sun could not be seen. But, during the eclipse, a star which was actually at the edge of the sun's darkened disk appeared a small distance away from...
...General Theory of Relativity is supported by an impressive body of astronomical observation. Relativity explains the orbital eccentricities of Mercury, the "stretching" of light from heavy stars, the bending of starlight around the sun, the slowed motion of solar atoms, the expanding universe. Albert Einstein, however, has refrained from putting up any "No Trespassing" signs around his mathematical edifice. He has done some mending himself, particularly on the shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl...
Thermocouples are activated by infra-red radiation as well as by starlight. It would be possible to put the thermocouple at the focus of a movable parabolic reflector, and to assume, when a peak of electrical activity was noted, that the reflector was trained on some strong source of radiation-such as a metal ship out to sea in the dark. If this is how the Signal Corps' ship-finder works, it differs in no essential detail from the infra-red "Fog-eye" developed by Paul Humphrey Macneil and successfully demonstrated two years ago (TIME...