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...Yale University junior is under arrest in Aurora, Colo., awaiting possible arraignment on attempted murder charges as a result of a wild shooting spree in front of his father's home Thursday night...
Ghost Town. In Indianapolis, with 40,000 of a 350,000 run of new highway maps already printed, the state highway commission discovered that its printers had accidentally removed the city of Aurora...
...soft glow, the dead-black background of the murals seems to recede. Saturn with its rings stands out almost in three dimensions, clear and cold and quiet. The waving streamers of the aurora shimmer in a delicate pastel curtain. Flamelike solar prominences erupt from the surface of the sun with more clarity than in the original coronagraph pictures. Nothing seems to stand still: the murals vibrate with energy...
Among these "unusual conditions," Menzel includes effects caused by aurora borealis, which occur when the air is ionized by radio-active particles coming to earth from explosions on the sun. Aside from atmospheric effects, he finds, "saucers" can be caused even by particles of dust on the observer's face...
Much of the world's weather is manufactured in those frigid air masses where the aurora brightens the long polar nights. Dr. Menzel believes that as much energy goes into the display as the earth normally absorbs from the heat and light of a day in the sun. If further observations prove him correct, even meteorologists in latitudes far from the pole will be checking on the faraway fireworks of the aurora borealis before they make their forecasts...