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...clear, moonless night, far from any city glare, a keen-eyed observer can see in the sky a faintly glowing cone. This is the "zodiacal light," which astronomers believe is sunlight reflected from dust particles revolving around the sun like microscopic planets. In Sky and Telescope, Astronomer Otto Struve of the University of California tells how he thinks the dust got there...
...left over from the original material out of which the planets condensed. That has long since disappeared. The smaller particles of it were blown out of the solar system by the pressure of sunlight. The larger ones were swept up by the planets or captured by the sun itself. The existing particles are comparatively "young" (as ages are measured in astronomy); they were formed, thinks Struve, by the "gravel-mill" action of the bodies in the solar system clashing against one another...
...such wistful images as a lingering shot of two boys on their backs in a haywagon, rolling along in tree-dappled sunlight, Director Tourneur evokes a full-blown atmosphere of carefree rural living. Equally expert when the film bursts into melodrama, he uses only two graphic shots to concentrate all the impact of a burning-cross visitation by the Klan. When the parson later heads off a lynching by an appeal to the mob's better instincts, the situation is strictly bogus; yet the scene plays with sure effectiveness...
...where funeral services were held in the suburban Gran Colombia school. Thousands watched as 31 black or white hearses (black for men and older boys, white for the plane's stewardess and the younger boys) moved slowly out of the school grounds toward the cemeteries. In the bright sunlight at the Southern General cemetery, not far from the flower-heaped grave of Venezuela's murdered President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, twelve coffins were lowered into one large grave, others into family plots. Then, as the parents turned away to their cheerless Christmas, Padre Vélaz flew back...
...Direct sunlight vibrates transversely in all directions equally. Sky light scattered by atmospheric particles vibrates more in some directions than in others...