Eclipse to Test Einstein's Idea

The accuracy of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity may be determined by the Harvard Observatory soon. The Observatory received a wire yesterday from the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, indicating that positive results may come from photographs taken of Monday's eclipse of the sun.

The High Altitude Observatory, which is associated with Harvard and the University of Colorado, had news from its scientific team that its equipment had functioned "as scheduled." The observations were taken in Khartoum, Sudan.

Khartoum was almost in the center of the path of the eclipse's totality. Seventy scientists from ten nations assembled there.

Months of calculations based on Monday's observations will test the accuracy of Einstein's theory that the sun's gravitational field bends star light rays passing close to it.