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...water from a depth of half a mile and feeding it into small pools, each with a capacity of 16,000 gallons. Within ten days the pools teem with phytoplankton and become ideal breeding grounds for aquatic life. Last week the Columbia scientists "set" their first batch of young Chesapeake Bay and Long Island oysters in the ponds, where they should thrive on the bountiful food supply. Eventually the scientists hope to raise snails, shrimps and anchovies in the pools...
...second largest batch of replies expressed dissatisfaction with the liberal stance. They proposed the man who epitomizes a hard-line approach to student dissenters: San Francisco State College President S.I. Hayakawa...
...moon." A skilled test pilot who helped develop the weapon system for the F-4H Phantom II jet fighter, Lovell suffered the greatest disappointment of his career when NASA failed to name him as one of its original Mercury astronauts in 1959. But he was chosen in the second batch in 1962, and he has since logged more hours in space (670, including the 143-hr, flight of Apollo 13) than any other mortal. Lovell was one of the Apollo 8 astronauts who orbited the moon at Christmas in 1968, and he backed up Neil Armstrong for Apollo...
...recordings annually for a $25-a-year membership fee. Key's first package offering: Brahms' German Requiem, Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 88 and 104, Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, all NBC Symphony broadcasts dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s. This year's batch will include Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, Mendelssohn's "Scotch" Symphony, dating from the same NBC period; and a Rossini-Verdi-Puccini LP emanating from the post-World War II reopening of La Scala on May 11, 1946 with the Maestro conducting...
...What we would like to do is make batch processing free to all students just as the House consoles are now," Leahy said...