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...that are sources of powerful Yadio waves but which seldom correspond with any object visible to optical telescopes. A clue to what these mysterious "stars" may be was given by the discovery about two years ago that the second strongest of them shows in the Palomar Mountain 200-inch optical telescope as a pair of galaxies, apparently in collision, hundreds of millions of light-years away. The new telescope men will attempt to show that fainter radio stars are also colliding galaxies. Since the radio waves created in some unknown way by such collisions penetrate much farther than light, they...
Boston-born Korczak Ziolkowski likes to do things on a big scale. A brawny six-footer who wears a full-blown, eight-inch beard, he can still, at 48, lift a 500-Ib. weight off the floor. His name itself (approximate pronunciation: Kor-chak Jule-fcttjf-ski) is so big a mouthful that even old friends avoid using it so they won't mispronounce it. But the biggest thing about Ziolkowski is his ambition. It is to carve the most mountainous piece of man-made sculpture in recorded history. He is working on a piece of material that...
...Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch to simulate the thin Martian atmosphere...
...born of smart shopping for surplus goods after World War II. But nothing beat the big buy that created Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., whose backers (including Houston Contractors George and Herman Brown) raised $143 million in 1947 to buy the Government's war-built 2,819-mile Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines. Out of an original investment on their part of only $150,000 in stock, they parlayed the Texas-to-East Coast oil lines into one of the U.S.'s big four natural-gas carriers, a giant worth $581 million...
Last week Texas Eastern was off again on another big deal. It won Federal Power Commission approval to spend $35 million on converting 1,168 miles (from Baytown, Texas to Moundsville, W. Va.) of the Little Big Inch line to petroleum products, including construction of a $13 million, 230-mile additional 14-in. spur from Seymour, Ind. to Chicago. To continue its present gas deliveries to the East, Texas Eastern will spend another $61 million on loops and compressors primarily along 453 miles of its 30-in. line from Beaumont, Texas to Uniontown...