The 200-inch telescope takes its first pictures
  Four pages of Palomar photographs
  by Edison Hoge
Research in Progress: Guayule
  Plant physiologists may hold the key to a new source of natural rubber
Desert Floods
  They may be rarebut they're rugged
  by Richard H. Jahns
The Beaver
  A new department devoted to student life
  by Jim Hendrickson
Science in Art: Man's First Aerial Voyage
  An eyewitness account of an historic event
  by Earnest C. Watson