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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matter of Time. The sun is far out on one of the spiral arms of the galaxy, about 25,000 light-years from its center. Technically, the astronomers can only see what no longer exists, or rather what existed 25,000 years ago, when the radio waves they observe left the galaxy's center. But in cosmological time, 25,000 years is only the blink of an eye, and astronomers, faced with the huge intervals of space, use light-years as simple measures of distance...
...surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was oriented by small gas jets to take its famous pictures of the far side of the moon (TIME, Nov. 9). Physicist Valerian I. Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior of animals sent aloft in rockets. Most fascinating shot, taken inside a nose cone: a rat, in a condition...
Married. Juanita Dale Phillips (Candy Barr), 24, Las Vegas stripteaser sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics conviction, whose unsuccessful U.S. Supreme Court appeal was financed by Mickey Cohen; and Jack Sahakian, 28, Los Angeles beauty-salon operator; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Married. Dolores Del Rio, 54, durable, still beautiful Mexican-born cinemactress (What Price Glory?); and Lewis A. Riley Jr., 45, TV producer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Newark...
Last week Cheek announced yet another innovation. Starting in January, his museum will be open from 8 to 10 five evenings a week, as well as in the daytime. "Now, amazingly enough," Cheek beamed, "for the first time in the world, a museum will suit its visiting hours to the convenience of the citizens it serves...