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...Upward Trend Seen...
General consensus feels that the '49-'50 upward trend will resume. Many institutions expected to reach their peak year by 1954 under normal trends, but are now worrying about how to keep their heads above water. Some 500 small colleges are in serious danger unless they got financial aid soon. They fear that to survive under present conditions would involve lowering their standards far below the one on which they are willing to operate...
...that they had detected radio stars in M. 31, the great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda nebula...
People who live near Muroc, Calif. are used to seeing strange sights in the sky as test pilots from Edwards Air Force Base put new planes through their paces. For the past month they have seen a fearsome thing: roaring yellow flames streaking across the night, sometimes rocketing upward to mingle with the stars...
...brutal painting, Guernica, successfully symbolized destruction from the air, and last week a first-rank sculptor was meeting the same challenge in bronze. Ossip Zadkine, 60, had been commissioned to commemorate the 1940 Nazi bombing of Rotterdam. He did it in terms of a single, fearful, upward-reaching figure...