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: ‘Flynn was always win-
Ning the war for us single-
handed.

Now we’ve a few more
Of them doing it in “The
Longest Day,” with a cast
hat reads like the Who’s

ho of Show Biz.

For a good third of this
j°ur-by-hour account of

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Wayne, Robert Mitchum,
: €nry Fonda, Robert Ry-
} % 92, Rod Steiger and a host
%f others, plan how to pro-

€ct rainy little Britain and
lead the way to victory.

On the other side, world-
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Officers (played by leading

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N° tong ago N. F. Kupre-
the “ich, an astrophysicist of
Usg Pulkovo _Observatory,
tograr Obtained unique pho-
Wit Phs of the Moon made
equi the help of infra-red TV
Recent. The use of pho-
in e2Y of heavenly bodies
tects, Infra-red part of the
Um opens up new pros-

x In the study of the na-

Of the lunar surface.

Mo ®fore man sets foot on the
&,,’ Scientists must obtain
Mformation about our
thin, Satellite, and the first
ig. > that will be necessary
Mita ed map of the lunar
& ‘ttonomers have discov-
rg), bright rays radiating
Some lunar craters. But

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fend their fatherland. And
it is only the stupidity of
Hitler, sleeping in a bunk-
er, which ensures their de-

feat.
* * ok

There isn’t a hint about
what the war was for, or
about the character of naz-
ism. The deity is invoked
on both sides, but the Bri-
tish are, perhaps, one up
in this respect as the Cath-
olic priest (John Gregson)
talks about “God’s work to
be done this night.”

Oh yes, the British are
there—in subordinate roles
‘played by leading British
actors.

Their main contribution
to the war effort is to sup-
ply the American comman-
ders with weather reports
and the like.

the reasons for these rays are
difficult to ascertain, because
the instability of the terrestial
atmosphere limits the use of
super-powerful telescopes,
thus causing heavenly bodies
to appear blurred and oscil-
lating.
* ak *

A key to unriddling some
space mysteries can be pro-
vided by deciphering photo-
graphs of the Moon made by
infra-red rays, which are in-
visible to the human eye.

The remarkable properties
of infra-red rays were noted
by astronomers long ago. As
distinct from visible light
rays, they pass through fog
and dense strata of the atmos-
phere practically unabsorbed.

When _— astronomers set
about photographing heaven-
ly bodies in infra-red rays the
instruments they used were
telescopes, photographic cam-
eras and photo plates.

But the ‘first pictures of the
Moon made in infra-red rays
brought disappointment, al-
though they somewnat en-
riched the knowledge of the
Moon. The explanation is that
the sensitivity of photograph-
ic material in the infra-red
part of the spectrum is very
low, and thus impedes pho-
tographing bodies in space.

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BS

And so, the new trend in
atronomy seemed

reached a dead end.
A new solution was found

by Kuprevich in the spring of

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to have

The French get rather
more credit—after all, the
film was made in France.
As for the Russians — not
a word. You wouldn’t even
know that they were in the
same war.

When the actual inva-
sion begins the battle
scenes are enormously im-
pressive — fierce and un-
relenting. The huge canvas
is handled with tremend-
ous competence and sweep.

Men died by the thous-
ands. They die in glory but
not in pain.

For this is not an anti-
Nazi film and it is not an
anti-war film, either. Hid-
ing under.a badge of “ob-
jectivity” it is a long, loud
battle-cry for American
militarism.

— NINA HIBBIN

New Moon pictures

1962. Placing his telescope on
his balcony, he hooked it up
to a TV screen.

“The image of the Moon,”
Kuprevich says, “intensified
with the help of the TV ap-
paratus, is transferred, not to
a photographic plate, but to
a special TV pickup sensitive
to infra-red rays. All observa-
tions can now be conducted
on the screen, at any distance
from the telescope.

The Pulkovo Observatory’s 30-
inch refracting telescope, for
many years the world’s largest.

A unique man...

oltan Kodaly, now nearly
80, is unique among com-
posers in that by his own
endeavours he has built the
musical life of a nation.

He is, by all reasonable
reckoning, a considerable
composer — with a marked
preference for choral music.

But — and his preference is
indicative — he is concerned
both with the fundamentals
of music and with the !funda-
mentals of society.

To perceive and to work on
the essential oneness of the
two has been his life’s work;
his reward is the remarkable
and broad musical culture
that distinguishes the life of
present-day Hungary.

* * *

Characteristically, how-
ever, Kodaly, - still efferves-
cent with the enthusiasm of
youth, is not content that all
is yet accomplished that
could be accomplished.

“A general musical consci-
ousness,” he once wrote, ‘‘will
only be found in Hungary
when the one-fifth minority
accepts the musical feeling
of the {four-fifths majority,
which is still regardéd with a
certain contempt.”

In the preface to ‘‘Bicinia
Hungarica”, Kodaly adds a
corollary: that music, based.
on such premises and extend-
ed to the common use of all
people, points the way of
peace and friendship.

The conclusion is not that

of a starry-eyed romantic, but
of a philosopher (of aston-
ishing depth), a pragmatic, a
wit and a fighter. ;

* x *

Hungary (and let this never
_be forgotten) suffered various
forms of oppression for a
thousand years.

“Now we can intensify the
image of the Moon in the
infra-red part of the spect-
rum, make it more vivid anc
sharper. Already now the
first photographs made with
the help of even a medium-
sized telescope coupled to a
TV installation cause correc-
tions. to be made in atlases
compiled with the use of big
telescopes.

* * *

“On a photograph of the
Moon obtained in the ordin-
ary way,” he continued, “we
see bright rays radiating from
the Tycho crater. Photogranh-
ed in the infra-red part of the
spectrum, the rays turn into
ordinary mountain chains.
How can this be accounted
for?

“Scientists suppose that the
radiance of the rays is caused

_ by the luminescence of lunar

rock under the impact of the
ultra-violet radiation of the
Sun. On the Earth, this radi-
ation is almost ‘fully absorbed
by the atmosphere and does
not reach us.

“There is no- atmosphere on
the Moon, and the effect of

Kodaly has indicted all,
and his noble choral works,
based on texts of national sig-
nificance and rooted in the
indigenous Magyar style that
he, and Bartok, uncovered,
are an index of national as-
pirations toward liberation.

ZOLTAN KODALY

More than this, Kodaly, re-
maining true to his birth-
right and continually living
in Hungary in order to ameli-
orate and to ennoble the lives
of his countrymen, has con-
sistently and bravely stood
out against corruption in high
places and bureaucratic ob-
Struction to his intention to
educate the people, and espe-
cially the children, of Hung-
ary.

Integrity of purpose and its
expression in art and life for
the common good: that is the
mark of Zoltan Kodaly.

—PERCY YOUNG
(Abridged)

ultra-violet rays is so strong
that some lunar rocks, slags
and sands evidently begin to
luminesce, just as the special
irradiated paints of advertise-
ments do in shop windows.
& * *

“This radiance is so strong

that it blinds the human eye

SCIENCE

and the ordinary photograph-
ic plate. In infra-red rays,
the mysterious radiance dis-
appears, and everything be-
comes clear...”

And one thing in particular

is clear: the mastering of
photography of heavenly bod-

ies with the help of infra-red

TV technique is a new
achievement of Soviet science.

Soviet scientist Ivan Maxi-
menko has been awarded a
Gold Medal for developing a
cotton plant producing green,
red, mauve, pink and blue
cotton.

PEACE

We must have Peace, we must have freedom
This for all the human race;

Stop this madness of destruction—

Peace must take its rightful place,

Do not heed the madmen’s war songs
Do not heed their hmyns of hate;
We'll not have war’s destructive atoms—
Give us Peace It’s not too late
* ERLING M. NASH

Oct. 19, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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