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Great telescopes such as the 200-incher on Palomar Mountain were designed for gathering faint starlight from a wide area and concentrating it in an image bright enough to make a photograph in a practical length of time. The limit of this method has probably been reached; big telescopes are wickedly expensive and hard to build. So forward-looking astronomers are now looking for other ways to brighten a telescopic image...
...Rufino Tamayo, was long kept out in the cold by his colleagues, because his art smacked of Paris and his politics failed to partake of Marx. Wallflower Tamayo was only recently invited to paint a muralin Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. His response has the muted, starlight luminosity typical of all his work. Says Tamayo guardedly; "I am picturing exican nationality, vigorous and mature, constructing things...
...doctor's office. But at the University of Chicago, Dr. Paul C. Hodges, has turned a Schmidt-type telescope into a highly efficient camera for making X-ray pictures of the human abdomen. The simplified system of lenses and concave mirror that can photograph the dimmest starlight is being used for quick, sharp snapshots of a faint, fluorescent screen...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers chirped out this call to American women. It was the 56th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. The presence of Ginger Rogers, addressing a room jam-packed with delegates' wives (and a few furtive men), wasn't the only new thing about this year's N.A.M. convention. Also present were 296 top industrialists brought by ECA from 18 foreign countries...
...lenses catch a wide bundle of light rays from faint stars or nebulae and cram them together at a small focus on a sensitized plate. Last week two French astronomers, Andre Lallemand and Maurice Duchesnes, were showing off a new wrinkle in astrophotography. Instead of depending on the original starlight to make the photographic impression, they plan to amplify the light's energy before it reaches the plate...