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Dwarf novas are dim stars that have the strange habit of flaring up at irregular intervals-increasing their brightness almost 100-fold. Astronomers have often speculated about these periodic changes, but until Dr. Kraft used the great 200-inch Palomar telescope to follow 20 dwarf novas through 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...
Actually, though, the afternoon and evening festivities went off almost exactly as planned. The adventurous few who showed up with ice skates at 4 o'clock sharp stared for a while at the two inch layer of water, stared for a while at the closed door of Agassix, and finally began a snowball fight to the death...
...rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier merchandise may be ordered for delivery next time the Shopmobile comes around. The first Shopmobile will go into action this week in Orlando...
Buried deep in a burrow and shielded by massive steel slabs, one of the newest gadgets at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory is sighted in on the smallest and most mysterious components of the universe. In their massive spark chamber with its inch-thick aluminum plates, Brookhaven's atomic physicists hope to trap and study elusive particles that now are little more than factors in abstruse equations. With luck, they may even capture the elusive neutrino...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!" in inch-high scrawls--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't ('Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...