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Hitler had a strong reason for not accepting the opinions of his generals. As Siegfried Westphal, Rundstedt's chief of staff and now a steel executive, told Cate: "The generals had been wrong about both Czechoslovakia and Poland. None of us believed that such blitz campaigns were possible. Even in France, the German military predicted that the campaign would last much more than six weeks. Hitler was proved right, and ever afterward he followed his own judgment. Naturally, France was the last time he was right...
...October, many a stargazer's camera was focused on its fiery trail. But two California Institute of Technology researchers were deter mined to record far more than mere surface glow. And the Astrophysical Journal last week reported remarkable success. Eric Becklin, a graduate student in physics, and James Westphal, a senior research fellow in planetary science, not only obtained the first temperature measurements ever made of a comet, they also gained valuable insight into a comet's composition and behavior...
Solar Heating. To Becklin and Westphal, this consistent temperature behavior suggests that the comet generated no heat, but was warmed entirely by solar radiation. Another set of observa tions seemed to bear them out: temperatures of the comet's head and tail were always identical. If the comet supplied some of its own heat, its head, or nucleus, should have been warmer...
...Astronomers Bruce C. Murray and Robert L. Wildey of Caltech uncovered that surprise by placing a new infrared photometer at the focus of Palomar's 200-in. telescope and taking the temperature of Jupiter's cold atmosphere. Although the photometer designed by Engineer James A. Westphal is 20 to 50 times as sensitive as earlier instruments, it registered no change as it scanned the Great Red Spot and the light and dark bands that decorate Jupiter's disk...
...Philadelphia's Convention Hall, red-booted Albert Westphal, a flabby (5 ft. 7 in.. 195 lbs.), obscure German who looked like a lady wrestler, was matched off against Sonny Listen, whose career, besides 22 knockouts, included 19 known arrests, two convictions (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), and a five-year term at the Missouri State Penitentiary. At 1 min. 58 sec. of the first round, Westphal, who had been backpedaling furiously, stood still long enough for Liston to hit him with a pawring left and a ponderous right. Then he pitched forward on his face for Listen...