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WHRB will change its FM broadcasting frequency to 95.3 on the dial, John H. Shenefield '60, president of the station, announced last night...
...visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev and Leningrad...
...afternoon of the ninth, when an observer, looking through an instrument called a monochromatic heliograph, spotted a flare of breathtaking brilliance leaping out from the Sun's surface. Almost before he could notify the World Data Center on Solar Activity at Boulder, Colorado, confirmation came from the Radio Astronomy Station at Ft. Davis. Bursts of static at 448 megacycles were so loud that the listener called it "Magnitude Major Plus...
...great was the radio noise that Alan Max well, director of the Harvard station at Ft. Davis considered sending a bulletin to the IGY World Warning Center at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, to recommend the declaration of a special World Interval, an alert to scientists to keep an especially sharp watch for unusual occurances. It was unfortunate that he did not consider the evidence strong enough for such a step, because the next day one of the greatest of all magnetic storms struck the Earth...
...family probably was unaware that the same phenomenon that produced the spectacular northern lights the evening of the tenth also permitted them to pick up BBC telecasts from London. A ham radio operator in Rhode Island with a normal range of fifty miles was startled to pick up a station from Texas, but a Trans World Airlines pilot had to fly thousands of miles over the North Pole without radio contact anywhere. As soon as the Sun set on the evening of the tenth, aurorae were seen around the world, even in some latitudes where they had not appeared within...