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ECLIPSE
A partial eclipse of the sun is viewed in Fort
Worth today, but it> after oft people looked
for it.
PQYLE ANT) CAMERAWBAP news editor
Toyle Vinson photographs the
eclipse, using a mylon filter--the substance used
to make the satellite balloon which is now circlingaround the earth.
rejects the sun's rays.
The Associated Press, on information from sources
in Washington, said the moon would start crossing
tne sun's path shortly after 3 p.m. and the eclipse
would reach its ima peak shortly before 5 p.m.However, it doesn't begin until
half hour later, 2Q per cent of5:44,, and about a
the sun's face iscovered by the moon.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Eclipse], script, September 20, 1960; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc936079/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.