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...scarcely more than three years later, the Observatory is today dedicating the largest radio telescope in this hemisphere, taking an active part in planning still larger ones, operating or planning stations in Sunspot, New Mexico, and Fort Davis, Texas, and in general showing the greatest activity in its history...
...ionosphere, which usually bounces the radio waves back to the earth. The cause of the flares is not fully known, Menzel said. They could be caused by shock waves from tremendous upsurges of gas in the sun's atmosphere or because of electrical and magnetic forces near an active sunspot group...
...effect of this is to make TV pictures show up on distant screens, sometimes thousands of miles away. During the last sunspot maximum, in 1947, programs from London were often received in New York City, and one fan in South Africa reported picking up London. The last sunspot minimum was in April 1954 (sunspot count: 3.4). The curve is now heading up mightily. Last month the count was 90.2, and the maximum is expected to come in about two years...
...programs were broadcast, but the world is full of stations now. If the sunspot maximum is a strong one (sometimes they fizzle), programs from almost anywhere are apt to show up almost anywhere else. The pictures will seldom be good, and they will seldom last long. If the foreign station has a different line image (Britain uses 405 lines, the U.S. 525 lines), its picture will be a meaningless pattern of distorting interferences. U.S. viewers in some cases can adjust their sets to pick up the foreign picture, but then they will not get U.S. pictures...
...trouble. Some of the reasons listed by 83-year-old Irwin Vick Shannon, once a dean the sunspotters : "Cheap money, huge governmental spending and enormous building activity have largely offset the usual [bearish] effects of low sunspot activity." Nobody thought that stock prices would go up forever. In fact, Wall Streeters were looking for a good-sized "technical" reaction-simply because the market had gone up so fast with hardly a breather. But no one thought that it had reached its peak. Just as Americans had become accustomed to;-an evergrowing economy, there was no reason why stock prices, which...