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...disorganized, windy, frequently fascinating look in the mirror by a softie who always made like a toughie (TIME...
...great radio telescope now under construction at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, England will have a "steerable" saucer of copper mesh 250 ft. in diameter. Acting like the concave mirror of an optical telescope, it will concentrate radio frequency waves sent to the earth by dark "radio stars" and faraway galaxies. Mostly it will be busy with the complex problems of astrophysics, but last week Professor A. C. Lovell, head of Jodrell Bank research station, admitted that the great dish might be used occasionally on projects with more immediate popular appeal...
...last ten years only one big, new daily has been launched, the Los Angeles Mirror. It has cost Publisher Norman Chandler millions already, and is still losing at the rate of an estimated $20,000 to $30,000 a week. Last week the Mirror, along with Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express, raised its street-sale price from 7? to 10?. But publishers have found out that price increases are no solution to the cost squeeze (only two U.S. dailies still sell for 2?, only 22 for 3?), since circulation accounts for only about one-third of an average...
...history of art is not a dead-end street of higher criticism, but rather the mirror to history in its broadest aspects. It has by virtue of necessity, and particularly at the undergraduate level, come to symbolize that universal synthesis for our modern world which the medieval schoolmen hoped to find in the theological universality of St. Thomas Aquinas, Taylor said...
...been set in place nearly 5,000 years ago. Next day the chiseling continued while El Malakh and a group of colleagues waited impatiently. At last the hole was big enough for him to peek inside. In the excitement he forgot to bring a flashlight, so he used a mirror (as the ancient Egyptians probably did) to shoot sunlight into the darkness...