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PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Barry Sullivan and E. G. Marshall star in "This Town Will Never Be the Same," which chronicles the last day in the life of a newspaper and the effect its death will have on its staff and the town...
...illusion. "At my first Oscars presentation," recalls Director Joseph Mankiewicz (All About Eve), "Jackie Cooper fell asleep in Marie Dressler's lap. The president of the Academy suggested that everybody toast his wife." In the days before television's time limitations, baroque speeches thanking everyone from the star's mother to the wardrobe mistress were de rigueur. Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver acknowledgment took 40 minutes...
Undaunted by so formidable an obstacle, Astronomer Peter van de Kamp, the director of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore (Pa.) College, set out 31 years ago to search for dark companions of nearby stars. His long effort has been well rewarded. Last week the Dutch-born, 67-year-old astronomer an nounced the first "solid evidence" that there is a system of planets other than the solar system. He has detected two planets circling Barnard's star, some 35 trillion miles away from the earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus...
...using a classical astronomical technique: searching for irregularities in the path of a celestial body, a wobble that might be caused by the gravitational pull of a dark, unseen companion. As early as 1844, for example, astronomers concluded from wobbles in the path of Sirius that the bright star was accompanied through space by a star too faint to be seen from earth. The same technique has been used to establish that several other apparently single stars are actually members of a binary sys tem; they have stellar companions that are invisible from the earth...
Second baseman Vince McGugan leads the Yardling batting attck. Supporting him are captain Tim Bilodeau and catcher John Murray, a Boston College High School star...