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...broad. This is the same shape as the doughnut-like Van Allen belt of charged particles that have been trapped by the earth's magnetic field, and Morris and Berge concluded that Jupiter also has a magnetic halo that captures charged particles thrown from the sun. As they whirl around the planet at nearly the speed of light, the particles in Jupiter's halo give off radiation in the form of radio waves...
Absent from Broadway since he gave Charley's Aunt a nimble whirl eleven years ago, Ray Bolger shows the toll of his own 58 years, not only in his froggily croaking voice, but in the dances that he pointedly sits out. Only in a second-act number called I'm Fascinating does he finally take the dance floor (and the house) with his eccentrically masterful specialty, the best-ever human imitation of a drunken penguin on ice. Top supporting honors go to Anita Gillette as a sex-hexed coed with a diaphanous sentence structure ("I desired his body...
...relaxed with Americans than Menshikov, whose major trademark was a stiff, frozen grin. For a Soviet diplomatic couple, the Dobrynins have unusual social poise, even dress like Americans. On the art-and athletics-conscious New Frontier, they are likely to contribute more than Menshikov to Washington's social whirl. Both are accomplished skiers (he also plays tennis), and Mrs. Dobrynin plays the piano well, has a broad knowledge of U.S. art and literature. But Washington would be surprised indeed if Dobrynin displayed the one quality that Soviet diplomats, however polished, rarely bring along with them: flexibility...
...After innumerable studies of figures, single or in pairs, and a few studies of abstract shapes, entwined like dancers, he produced a climactic picture (see color). It is a jigsaw of figures tumbling, hurtling, plummeting, yet all interlocked. As the eye examines them, they seem to begin to whirl, as if Léger had painted them on a pinwheel...
...many bright and dim cycles, no one was sure what caused them. Using telescope and spectrograph, Dr. Kraft kept track of the novas' changing temperature, light and motion. After 30 months he was able to prove that at least seven of them are double stars. The two bodies whirl around each other every few hours, moving up to 165 miles per second, 24 times the speed needed to fling a rocket free of the earth's gravitation...