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...View. On swept the shadow at 3,000 m.p.h. The Shetland Islands were covered with storm clouds, but southern Britain was reasonably clear, and millions of Britons saw the partial eclipse. Most spectacular view of totality was from 21 Canberra jet bombers of the R.A.F., which flew so high (50,000 ft.) that the shadow looked like an oval black shape in the cloud deck far below...
...Mayas. Much of the rest of the country is also dank rainforest. Out of these green lowlands, along the Pacific Coast, rise mountain ranges, mistily blue and sullenly beautiful, that cup seven sparkling lakes and top out in 33 symmetrical volcanoes, each with a puff of cloud caught eternally around its peak. Fertile volcanic soil six feet thick covers the high plateaus and shaded valleys; it is in the highlands that 80% of Guatemalans live...
Meantime, Runner Bannister got caught up in a dizzy, two-day whirl in Manhattan, amiably submitted to interviews, posed for pictures, appeared on a few radio-TV shows free from a sponsor's taint, and took in the sights. Another compromising situation was averted in the cloud-banked Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Center when Bannister accepted a small silver cup, guaranteed to be worth no more than $32.90, from a Southern California amateur athletic group. It was a substitute for a $300 sterling silver bowl-the Roger Bannister Trophy-which he could have received only in defiance of British...
...since positrons exist, there should be negative protons (anti-protons), around which positrons could revolve to form atoms of "reversed matter." Last week a group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, headed by Professor Bruno Rossi, reported that a strange intruder from space had entered one of its cosmic-ray cloud chambers. When it first showed up, it behaved like a rather slow-moving heavy particle. Then it hit a brass plate in the apparatus and set off three powerful electron "cascades" that appeared to have been started by high-energy gamma rays...
...commanded. His wish, he said, was to paint not the melodramatic panoramas then in fashion, but "civilized landscape." By "civilized," some said, he meant simply "well-pruned." Still, in age, Inness began to have a little success. Today the modesty of his art seems to set off, not cloud over, its brilliance...