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Stars are so far away that even in the biggest telescopes they never show up as anything more than mere points of light. The only direct means of measuring them is with an interferometer: an instrument that collects the light from a star in two different mirrors a short distance apart, then feeds the two beams into the same telescope. Despite the star's enormous distance, light from each of its edges must travel a slightly different distance to reach one mirror than to reach the other. This tiny variation causes the light waves in the two beams...
...brisk 2,000 copies a week, and has already topped the total sales of his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle-although the Chronicle won the National Book Award in 1958. Movie rights to both have been bought for $75,000, but it seems likely that any movie will mirror merely the realism. Cheever has been long acknowledged as a master of the short story, of which he has written over a hundred. Some are merely slick or O. Henryish, but some, such as The Country Husband, The Death of Justina, Goodbye, My Brother, are as perfect as a short story...
...only at the end should we suspend any predilection toward valuative judgement. Throughout the film we must experience the world in terms other than our own. In one scene (when we follow Pierre's desperate race to the convent) it bounces madly by us in the rear-view mirror of a truck. In a restaurant party, a babbling couple are grotesquely distorted through the stem of Pierre's champagne glass...
...unabashedly in favor of women." To prove it, he announced the names of a bevy of feminine appointees-one being Jacqueline Kennedy as a member of a new committee for the preservation of the White House. Among others: - Mrs. Norman Chandler, 62, wife of Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. President Norman Chandler. Job: member, Advisory Committee to the U.S. Information Agency...
...hands, poked daintily through a curtain, as was once the case with high-ranking Moslem women. But, says the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Theodore J. Berry, there is still much to be said for a show of hands. In a new book, The Hand as a Mirror of Systemic Disease (F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia; $15), he reminds his colleagues that a variety of serious diseases can be detected by the study of a patient's hands...