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CATCHING: Shepard has moved O'Donnell behind the plate, where he was playing last year before he shifted to first base. Allan Liebgott, a substitute for the past two years, is the other top candidate. Junior Jeff Hall and sophomore Don Chiofaro are on the fringes...
Using the 200-in. giant at Palomar, Astronomers Allan Sandage and Jesse Greenstein channeled the faint light from a quasar through spectrographs, using exposures as long as six or seven hours to produce a usuable image on their film. Their painstaking labor produced tiny spectrograms that contained no color, only shadings of black and white, and were one-third of an inch long and a thousandth of an inch thick. Under the microscope, however, Sandage and Greenstein were barely able to discern strange patterns and spectral lines that had never before been observed in stellar spectra. Genuinely puzzled, Greenstein began...
...beginning was 1959, and the word was happening. Drawing on the antics of Dadaism and surrealism, Manhattan Artist Allan Kaprow decided to stage a series of highly unorthodox, one-shot performances for a handful of friends in Greenwich Village. Read the invitation: "Think of a buying spree at Macy's; how to grow geraniums in New York. Do not look for paintings, sculpture, the dance or music...
...authors (Dr. Dobyns, Dr. Allan R. Holmberg, chairman of the Cornell anthropology department and Dr. Paul L. Doughty, now on the Indiana University faculty) tell the story of how Peace Corpsmen were expelled from the village of Vicos by a vote of its Indian inhabitants, and how some of the Volunteers were then specifically asked to return to the village...
...plague of higher education in the South has been its complacent "intellectual provincialism" and its dearth of leaders with the ambition to "rise above regional standards." So argued Allan M. Cartter, vice president of the American Council on Education, after a study of Southern universities. Yet Cartter also found signs of "a real educational renaissance" at four private schools that have in recent years acquired new presidents and got on the move...