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...This is the night," began Hope, "that wars and politics are forgotten and we find out who we really hate." The show was off and trotting-the Academy Awards never run. What kept interest sparking during the preliminary events was pure starlight. In recent years, Hollywood has increasingly chosen to stay home and watch on TV, but this year, Academy Board Member Gregory Peck took it upon himself to change that, personally called everyone to be sure they would be there. It made a difference. Not only were there old-timers such as Fay Wray and Chester Conklin...
After studying nearly 100 years of star photographs from the University of Heidelberg, Dr. Harlan Smith of the University of Texas reported that the light from the heavenly body known as 3C-273 pulsates regularly on a 13-year cycle. Not that pulsating starlight is rare, but 3C-273 is not a star. It is a "quasar" (quasi-stellar object) that sends out powerful radio waves as well as light and is believed to be about 1 billion light-years away from the earth. Most astronomers think it is a galaxy in the process of exploding...
...beyond a reasonable point. Also left out on occasion are some of our writers' most cherished literary touches. TIME'S theater critic is still smarting from the fact that when, in a recent issue, he tried to describe Margaret Leighton's eyes "as pools of blue starlight," the phrase was changed to "wounds of inner pain" (on reflection, perhaps both were a bit much). One of our movie critic's most painful losses was his description of Tony Curtis as "a sort of Gary Grunt." And this week the People writer attempted to summarize a congressional...
High Argument. Professor Philip Morrison of Cornell thinks the X rays may be generated when starlight picks up energy from high-speed electrons far out in space. Professor Minoru Oda of M.I.T. figures that the X rays come from a magnetic field surrounding the edges of the galactic nucleus. British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle suspects that they may be connected with the creation of new matter in the vast emptiness between the galaxies...
Pictures taken at night are sometimes more revealing than those taken in daytime. In some cases, long exposures with sensitive film and light-intensifying devices can take satisfactory shots in moonlight or even starlight. But it is more common to illuminate the target, usually by a powerful flash bomb dropped by parachute and exploded far below the plane. A shield keeps the brilliant light from reaching the camera directly, but the first light reflected from the ground triggers a photocell to open the camera's shutter. If there are no lights on the ground to fog the film...