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Agassiz Station in the town of Harvard will also hold open house during the first three days of this week. Visitors will be shown the new 60-foot Agassiz radio telescope and the 61-inch Wyeth Reflector...
...such interests as the Boy Scouts. Stricken with polio at three, he still walks with a slight limp that keeps him out of active sports and kept him out of service in World War II. Uncomfortable about missing military service, he once said, holding a forefinger a quarter-inch above his desk top: "When it comes to measuring who has given up most for his country. I measure about this high.'' But in the opinion of official and unofficial Washington. Bob Anderson is well on the way to measuring much higher than most men can reach...
Three months ago the first measure of democracy was doled out to the native African tribesmen of Britain's Kenya, but from the Africans' point of view it was a pitiful inch for a desired mile. Under a constitution devised during the height of the Mau Mau rebellion, some 130,000 carefully screened voters representing Kenya's more than 5,500,000 Africans were allowed to vote for eight black members of the national Legislative Council...
...tiny slabs of ivory, some no more than half an inch in diameter, are preserved the faces of major Colonial, Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary figures as painted by America's most skillful miniaturists (opposite). Some of them pack immense values into a minuscule space-accuracy of the likeness, deftness of characterization, clarity of form, purity of texture, a glow of the ivory through the delicate colors to enhance the flesh tones. They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they...
...administer a control system for the jet age, Curtis last week recommended that the Airways Modernization Board be succeeded eventually by an even larger civil-military Federal Aviation Agency, which would absorb CAA and part of CAB. Empowered to police every inch of airspace, the new agency would probably lead to a new Cabinet-level boss for U.S. aviation. Meanwhile, CAA is planning a six-year, $810 million program of buying new electronic control equipment. It also hopes to boost present personnel from 16,000 to 24,000 in the next three years, will extend its radio and radar control...