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...Good World. This year, students on campuses all over the U.S. have put on such shows. Though nominally under a national organization called Panel of Americans, they operate autonomously within their own colleges or universities. Since the first panel started at U.C.L.A. in 1942, the movement has spread to a score of campuses, is now a permanent part of the academic scene. Its purpose, says Los Angeles' Adaline ("Gramma") Guenther, who founded the first group, is not so much to- preach as to inspire. "We merely offer something for the audience to think about. We appeal to their conscience...
...public has got to know that they [the military] are destroying Omni-DME and replacing it with a completely unproved new system." Knobs & Dials. The two navigation systems are more notable for their likeness than their difference. Both are rhotheta systems;* both use simple dials on the instrument panel to show direction and distance to destination. Omni-DME is slightly more accurate for distance; Tacan is slightly better on direction. CAA adopted Omni in 1948, and began to install sending stations at airports to replace the radio ranges that told a pilot whether he was to the right or left...
WHAT may be the West's oldest painting of the Madonna has been rediscovered in Rome's Church of Santa Francesca Romana. An expert restorer named Pico Cellini found the panel (right) under a 13th century Tuscan canvas of the same subject, which he had been commissioned to clean...
...something important was the presence of a few spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini dissolved the glue between the canvas and the panel on which it was mounted. Slowly, with utmost caution, he peeled back the canvas, preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep. The ancient Madonna gazes with Byzantine intensity from eyes...
...three members of the panel agreed, however, on Einstein's approach to science. Aiken called him an empyricist, which he defined as one who requires observational support for his theories...