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...holding his first art show. On the gallery walls were 49 delicately-colored scenes of Italy and Southern France that would have done a professional credit: airy, back-lighted town vistas, views of Venice and the Riviera, mountain terraces dipping into lush valleys, richly colored flower markets flooded with sunlight. The critics cheered Emanuel's taste, finesse and remarkable craftsmanship. Said one: "He really has the painter...
When oldtime mine mules were brought to the surface after years in the coal pits, it took them several days to get used to seeing in the sunlight. Wall Street had the same reaction last week when President Eisenhower dropped all wage (and some price) controls, his first big step towards liberating the U.S. economy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Blinking at the sudden sunlight, traders began selling furiously, drove the stock market's Dow-Jones industrial average down 7.61 points in a week to the lowest level of the year...
...merchant marine academy), he heard about the zodiacal light, a faint, wedge-shaped glow that reaches into the sky near the plane of the earth's orbit. It is best seen in the tropics just after dusk or just before dawn. Astronomers now believe that it is sunlight reflected from small particles revolving around the sun like miniature planets, but in Drent's youth the experts disagreed about nearly all details. So when he put to sea in 1910, he resolved to do some observing...
...tells of a gadget specially designed to do the job from a high-flying rocket. Developed at the University of Colorado, the "sun-seeker" has 21 photoelectric cells that peek from doors opened in the nose of the rocket as it climbs toward the top of the atmosphere. Sunlight falling on the cells tells them just where the sun is. They take note of this information and keep a spectrographic camera pointing straight at the sun, even though the rocket may be rolling...
...tricky rocket business). The fourth trial succeeded. The sun-seeker found the sun and held the camera steady on it for long enough to get a 28-second exposure. The film, recovered undamaged from the rocket's wreckage, showed a sharp spectrogram of the sunlight taken at 50 miles altitude, above nearly all of the atmosphere. The bulk of the ultraviolet was at just the place on the sun's spectrum where the scientists thought it would be: at 1,216 angstroms...