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...level, there was something of a genteel attack on anti-Semitism in the air-particularly after the Gilbert-Poor Affair in which two freshmen, victimized by townies because one of the two was a Jew, received a column and a half of attention in Time magazine, but only one inch in the Service News. Similarly, when F. O. Mathiessen, professor of American Literature, submitted a review of "Strange Fruit," a 1943 novel on racism, to the News, he was forced to run it as a letter because of the editors' fears of potential editorializing. So clearly the times weren...
...plate-and-mesh reflector can be tilted 90° from a point directly overhead to the horizon in only half that time. Furthermore, the telescope has been so meticulously designed that the stresses caused by such movements deform its reflector by no more than about four-hundredths of an inch, an important factor in maintaining a sharp "image." Not the least of the antenna's advantages is its site: located at the bottom of a tree-lined valley, it should be well shielded by the surrounding hills from commercial microwaves and other electronic pollution...
...CRIMSON? Never. On the other hand, it is true that I have learned something. I have learned that people will sell anything- used tennis balls, half a bicycle, themselves (handsome, charming Rhodes Scholar Yale graduate seeks apartment blah, blah, blah), that there are six picas to an inch, that people look behind a counter and see not me at all, but a secretary...
...been repeatedly hit by meteorites and broken up so that a layer of broken rock and dust from 6 to 20 feet deep lies on the surface. Some of these rocks have been lying on the surface directly exposed to space for several million years, while the top inch of soil has been relatively unmixed for the last several hundred million years...
...very interesting forms the meteorite-produced glass takes is as thousands of tiny colored glass beads which are mostly less than 1/32 of an inch in diameter and appear to be splash droplets. Even these tiny objects have micro-craters on them caused by even smaller particles. Most of these beads are slightly transparent and may be colored red-brown, green or blue while others are opaque with a metallic looking surface. They are so numerous that they make up about 1/3 of the lunar dust...