Word: sunning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Building. They had to content themselves with predictable speeches to a generally indifferent audience before heeding police instructions to move on. Even the elements seemed to be against the Weathermen. A downpour washed out another attempt to hold a rally in Lincoln Park, scattering demonstrators and inspiring the Chicago Sun-Times to report: "The revolution was called on account of rain...
Sure enough, the rain had stopped the night before, the sky was blue, and the autumn sun was shining brightly through the red-on-red trees. Arlo saw to it that nobody bothered the pack of mongrel puppies that scampered freely among the guests. "One of my mystical friends told me that one of these puppies will some day save the life of one of my children," he explained. "I don't know which one it is, so I have to take care of all of them...
...ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the South.'" It was an epic moment, one of the many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt of the Sun shamelessly overlooks in favor of pop-psych melodramatics. A pity, too, because when this Freudian version of the conquest of Peru concentrates on the pomp and circumstance traditional to movie spectaculars, it is a lot of cornball...
...solar emissions such as x-rays, ultraviolet light and neutrons that are ordinarily blocked from view by the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere. When ever the satellite emerges from the earth's shadow, two of these devices, including Harvard's telescope, constantly scan different portions of the sun's disc and record the intensity of the sun's radiation in varying sections of the spectrum...
Ultra-violet measurements, like these, are important because ultra-violet rays from the sun occasionally interfere with earth's radio communications, and the energy from these invisible light waves supplies much of the solar heat that determines the earth's weather. Astronomers use slight, variations in the sun's ultra-violet spectrum as clues to the chemical and physical reactions goingon at various depths in the sun. By comparing satellite measurements of invisible radiation with earth-bound records of the sun's visible light, scientists should be able to predict some of these reactions and their effects on earth...