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...University group hopes to determine whether the light of the sun's inner corona, a glowing gaseous envelope surrounding the sun, is white or slightly colored. "Previous observations have shown no trace of color, but they have at best been only accurate to within 10 percent," said Sinton. "We hope, with luck, to reduce the margin of error to one percent," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Astronomers Plan Trip To Ceylon Next Month for Eclipse | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

...considerable favor. Although Leslie Storm's adaptation of the book does not provide high excitement and seems conscientiously to shun dramatic effect, it results in a picture that is severely honest and thought-provoking. The care with which director George More O'Ferrall and his cast have avoided any trace of trace of sentimentality helps convey to the screen the deeply depressing quality of Greene's novel...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Heart of the Matter | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

...Sirens echo over the desert, and, all alone, Graves makes the last decision. He gives the word to push the red button. Machines take over. A cam closes a switch and power is fed to cameras, test instruments and power plants. Red and green lights on the control panel trace the action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full 15 minutes through a maze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Gives the Word | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Letters from Heaven | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Nice & Busy. The differences between Knight and Nixon are both personal and political. Some Californians trace open signs of ill will to a 1952 campaign incident, when Knight was brushed off (and shoved out of camera range) when he showed up to welcome Nixon at a California airport. Ever since then. Goody has spoken sulphurously of Dick in private, and the California G.O.P. central committee, which the governor controls, has slighted the Vice President instead of offering him the traditional home-state support. Last week the governor welcomed the Vice President with the warmth of an arctic midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Man Who Wasn't There | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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