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...what may well be the most intensely observed eclipse in history. Besides the numerous telescopes, cameras and other elaborate gear located in Oaxaca, other equipment is being set up at observatories all along the Eastern Seaboard. By the fortunes of celestial mechanics, the eclipse's path will cross Wallop's Island, Va., where NASA scientists will send up 33 probing rockets as the shadow approaches. In addition, several research planes will seek an above-the-weather look at the eclipse; a U.S. Air Force KC-135 will even race the moon's shadow in order...
...foot tall Acrobec rocke? equipped with special ultra-violet light cameras, designed in part at the Harvard College Observalory, will arrive at NASA's missile range on Wallop's Island, Virginia next week. Edmond M. Reeves and William H. Parkinson, lecturers on Astronomy, are participating in the joint Canadian-British American rocket project that will observe the sun's chromosphere-a thin, outer layer of the sun that is distinguishable only during an eclipsc...
...interest per year on the initial outstanding debt of $1,000,000. The sale called for the principal to be paid off within five years. Normally, such an undertaking would require prodigious amounts of cash: annual payments of $175,000 for five years and then a liquidating wallop payout...
...Laugh It Off If You Can. At 21, he wrote the sprawling but remarkable Platonov, which turned up only long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided much of the plot of Uncle Vanya...
...tick. Birnbaum's own brand of ingenuity seems to lie with the quick double-entendre gag-vulgarity that goes against the grain of this particular musical. Just about everything the director does points at, rather than ignores, the show's leanly plotted and generally unfunny George's Abbott-Douglas Wallop book...