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...cosmic radiation in space is a bafflement that earth satellites have so far only deepened. Geiger counters aboard Explorers I and III were so swamped that they choked up. The new Explorer IV, equipped with more specialized counters, reports that radiation doubles for every 60 miles over a threshold 250 miles beyond earth...
...move was to rescind his grandfather's rule of no smoking in the galleries, thus bring back the Buckeye Club, a group of Sunday painters who now meet regularly at the institute to criticize one another's paintings. Last year more than 40,000 Youngstowners crossed the threshold, and Butler feels that his museum is booming. Of this year's exhibition he says with satisfaction: "You won't find very many clams. This is good stuff all the way through...
...would not be conspicuous to the naked eye, but it could be picked up easily with low-power moonwatch telescopes. Its great virtue would be its short life. Even on a comparatively high orbit, the tenuous bubble of nothing would be slowed by faint traces of air on the threshold of space. Following a circular course 300 miles above the earth, it would live for only about ten days, and its rapid changes of speed and altitude would measure air density much more accurately than the slow responses of heavier satellites...
...feud into the Congressional repertoire. Calling for peace waged at the conference table, Johnson, who invited "all men of all nations" to its chairs, outbid the President. Eisen-hower simply held the door open to talks, but required credentials of good faith for those who want to pass the threshold. It will indeed be a novel spectacle, though not one unwelcome to Senator Bricker, if the Senate tries to assume a forceful role in foreign policy decisions...
...peers. What makes "Helena Morley" a very special girl is the fact that she told not only all, or nearly all. to her diary, but published the diary in full. Following the day-by-day account, the reader will make a friend and also cross a threshold toward a special kind of understanding...