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Many mountings of homemade telescopes are pieced together from the gleanings of junk yards. Clyde Tombaugh, the amateur who discovered the planet Pluto, made a telescope mount from an old cream separator. Nevertheless, most homemade telescopes look pretty good; however much junk they contain, they must be precision instruments. Several, in fact, are now in use at professional observatories...
...worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
...industrial research are almost completely non-existent. Although high-frequency men can enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve, no provision has been made for other science concentrators who must fill the many semitechnical jobs in both combatant and noncombatant fields. Badly needed in industrial and government laboratories, even the cream of the electronics crop is at a loss for a clear-cut route to these jobs and the resulting uncertainty has seriously curtailed the available supply of these vital...
Delta Kappa Epsilon ("Deke") opened an ice-cream bar. Undergraduates strolled up & down Elm Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
Into the U.S. radio announcer's voice, whose main job has always been to promote sales in delicious tones, a new note has crept-a note of No. Announcers who still sounded as though they were bottled in heavy cream were last week giving such commercials...