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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that charged particles blown out of the sun knock soft X rays out of the moon, and if this were proved it would give vital information about the lunar surface, where astronauts may some day land. "There are things going on in space," says Dr. Rossi, "that are still unknown. That is what so excites us. We hope that by means of X rays we can detect some of these phenomena...
Yesterday, after almost two years in parts unknown, the sacred bird appeared, briefly and dramatically, over San Francisco Bay. This first clue to its where abouts caused great excitement in some Cambridge circles...
...High Renaissance, the 15th century artists of the Lowlands were called "Flemish primitives." But the modern eye has adjusted to their light, and appreciates the full sophistication of their art. This quality is clearly visible in The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, a long-hidden work by an unknown Flemish master which went on view last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (see opposite page). Preserved for many years in the seldom-used Paris house of a French banker, the yard-high triptych first reappeared in public at a 1962 auction. A Manhattan art syndicate bought...
...horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three panels like a deadly carrousel, binding them together more than the folding altarpiece's hinges. In depicting the Dark Ages torture of a martyr, the unknown painter of Flanders was stepping forward artistically into the awakening Renaissance...
...Mlle. Nicole Parichon, was cleaning the plaster off a mummy, she spotted a piece of papyrus that looked unusual. Other pieces matched it, and eventually a dozen pieces fitted together. They turned out to be part of a long, rolled-up scroll that contained 400 lines of a hitherto unknown play of Menander, a Greek playwright who died in 290 B.C. It is one of the oldest Greek manuscripts known, but the writing is almost as clear as fresh print...