America's 'watchers of the skies',_x000D_ On

America's 'watchers of the skies',_x000D_ On the Mount of Moses in Egypt._x000D_ Set on the highest peak in Egypt, the rugged, snowcapped Mount Sinai, which rises 11,000 feet above the arid desert, is the Solar Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution of America._x000D_ Here a staff scientists, Mr and Mrs Alfred Moore and Mr Fritz Froilandcarry out their observations of the heavens._x000D_ Mount Sinai, which is on the peninsula at the head of the Red Sea, between the Gulfs of Akabah and Suez, is known to the Arabs as Tebel Muss 'Mount of Moses'._x000D_ Photo shows, Mr and Mrs Alfred Moore and Mr Fritz Froiland, observers at the Smithsonian Institution Solar Observatory on Mount Sinai, Egypt._x000D_ 4 January 1938