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...finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night, when most Pennypackerites have classes on Friday; and, second, that, if such a party were the scene in my pad, our kindly proctors would quickly disperse us. Justice? Craig M. Nlelson...
...after a couple of delays, the 88-ft. Mercury-Atlas rocket belched off its launching pad. Forty seconds later, the range safety officer pressed the button that destroyed the rocket, which had deviated badly from its course. In a month of U.S. flops, this was the pffft seen around the nation-and even if, as scheduled, the U.S. sent a man on a long, downrange missile ride this week, the feat would still seem puny in comparison with the achievement of the Soviet Union's Major "Gaga" Gagarin...
Earlier, with knapsack on his back and a sketching pad in his pocket, he had traveled to Prague, through Serbia and Rumania, to Istanbul and Athens. He spent six weeks examining the Acropolis, and in his autobiography, in which he grandly refers to himself in the third person, he told what those six weeks meant. "The columns are still lying on the ground. Touching them with his fingers, caressing them, he grasps the proportions of the design. Amazement! Reality has nothing to do with books of instructions. Here everything was a shout of inspiration, a dance in the sunlight. Such...
...student (sex undeterminable by typewriter printing) remarked, "Spring is here, and the Radcliffe Dorm Presidents are on the prowl with flashlight and memo pad. . . . I think this should be brought to the attention of all Harvard men so that they know the full story when their true love refuses their fondest wish...
Upper Crust. Such problems did not seem to bother official Russia a bit. These days, whenever a rocket blasts off its pad, the flight is almost always as much a propaganda maneuver as it is a scientific adventure. But this time even the poorly organized and obviously inaccurate propaganda could do little damage to the towering scientific feat. Just two days after his trip, Yuri Gagarin got a hero's reception in Moscow. Red Square, the city's ceremonial center, was decked out in festive dress. Banners fluttered from tall silver flagpoles; streetcars, buses, autos, lampposts and buildings...