Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Argument. Professor Philip Morrison of Cornell thinks the X rays may be generated when starlight picks up energy from high-speed electrons far out in space. Professor Minoru Oda of M.I.T. figures that the X rays come from a magnetic field surrounding the edges of the galactic nucleus. British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle suspects that they may be connected with the creation of new matter in the vast emptiness between the galaxies...
Pictures taken at night are sometimes more revealing than those taken in daytime. In some cases, long exposures with sensitive film and light-intensifying devices can take satisfactory shots in moonlight or even starlight. But it is more common to illuminate the target, usually by a powerful flash bomb dropped by parachute and exploded far below the plane. A shield keeps the brilliant light from reaching the camera directly, but the first light reflected from the ground triggers a photocell to open the camera's shutter. If there are no lights on the ground to fog the film...
...going to be soggy and wet on that long plane ride back to Washington tonight." The folks returned to hear more. In a speech on Labor Day, he was at his evocative best. The morning rain, he whispered, had given way to the midday sunshine and the evening starlight because-well, because Fortune smiled on him and on the people of Illinois, and besides it was-the voice rose beatifically -Labor Day in America...
Kansas City, Mo., Starlight Theater: The Carol Burnett Show, a more or less one-woman revue...
...plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof, the hustling hosteler slipped behind the bar to mix a drink for New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem. But it was not a real test. All Mechem wanted was bourbon and water...