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...objection that the United States is cluttering space is far more serious. Already the U.S. has a poor international reputation for its "behavior in space," due to the Starfish experiment. Project Starfish was one of the nuclear tests conducted at Johnston Island last year. A 1.4 megaton bomb was detonated at an altitude of 250 miles on July 9, injecting radiation into the earth's magnetic field and creating and artificial Van Allen belt. This radiation did not disappear as American scientists predicted--in fact, it has rendered useless three satellites, as well as interfering seriously with the work...
...have been more concerned with the accumulation of indoor space than with the creation of beauty and too often economics or tastelessness have blotched the landscape with ugly piles; but the University has been generally fortunate in its assemblage of edifices. A path extended in an easterly direction from Johnston Gate, passes Massachusetts Hall, University Hall, Sever Hall, and the Visual Arts Center, Harvard's best buildings representing the most interesting periods in American architecture. Such a path wanders through the middle of a huge and amusing collection of buildings...
...Eliot crew glided to an easy victory in the final house race, held yesterday over a mile course in the M.I.T. Basin. Senior stroke Lowell Johnston kept the beat at an even 32 as the Elephant shell finished two and a half lengths ahead of any competition...
...Thursday's other heat, Eliot handily trounced Lowell, Kirkland, and Leverett. Stroked by senior Lowell Johnston, the Elephants tripped down the course at their usual brisk but even pace, winning with about two lengths to spare...
...margin of the 50-34 victory of the Youth Employment Bill that impressed the proposal's backers, but the support the measure won from Southern Senators; Olin Johnston (D-S.C.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), Russell Long (D-La.), Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), all voted for the bill...