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...Cruces, N.Mex. Weighing 5,000 Ibs. and mounted on an odd, horseshoe yoke, it looks like nothing else on earth. The outer lens, 18 in. in diameter, is as convex as a fishbowl. Inside are other lenses, one of them also bowl-shaped, and a 23-in. concave mirror. The film is placed between the lenses and sucked by a vacuum against the curved surface...
...optical system of the new "Super-Schmidt" camera was designed by James G. Baker, research associate in Astronomy. The design represents a radical advancement over the lens-mirror arrangement developed by the late Bernhard Schmidt, German instrument maker...
...poetry is more varied in quality. Donald Hall's Garrison Prize winner, "A Face in the Mirror," is a delightful little piece--one of the best of its sort I have ever seen in the Advocate, and the best poem of Hall's that I have read. Another selection from Hall's winning entry in the Garrison contest, called "Afternoon," struck me as dull and stereotyped (the scene is an amusement park closed for the winter). Charles Neuhauser's "Seascape with Salvage Barge" is a rich brew of imagery, alliteration, and studied rhyming. It is easily the best poem...
...Prompting New York Mirror Columnist Dan Parker to suggest some new Olympic events. Samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon," "the erroneous conclusion jump," and "hurling the invective...
Hearst's King Features Syndicate, which distributes Winchell to some 600 papers, cut out the paragraphs attacking the Herald, although the New York Mirror, which gets the column direct from Winchell, had already printed it. Winchell exploded, ordered his secretary to serve King Features with an ultimatum: if they did not send out the missing paragraphs in 15 days, he was quitting. King Features did nothing, but Winchell was mollified when he discovered that the Miami Herald itself had spotted the anti-Herald diatribe in the Mirror and printed it. Said he, ruefully, at week...