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...Notre Dame's sprawling field house, where 200 cats had all but blown the roof off in the hippest college bash of them all-the second annual College Jazz Festival. When the musicians packed their instruments and headed back to their campuses last week, they left the panel of five judges- convinced that college combos these days are playing some of the finest and freshest jazz in the land...
Britain's Princess Margaret climbed into a trailer parked close to the great radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. At a control panel was Bill Young of Los Angeles, who adjusted knobs and switches and then told the princess: "You push this button in one minute, 15 seconds." Meg waited. When Young said "Push," she touched the button marked "Execute Command." Red and white lights showed on the control panel, telling Young and Princess Meg that a radio signal had started from the radio telescope and was speeding across space at light's speed...
...graphs, maps and reports, even occasionally take off his jet on downwind runways because airport operators prefer him to fly over open areas and avoid householders' complaints about noise. A pilot has to be able to make as many as 100 visual "fixes" per minute on his instrument panel during his busiest moments-the landing approach. He must take extra precautions to keep his health during a long flight; pilots and copilots take their meals at alternate times; American Airlines forbids crews to eat seafood because of its perishability...
...brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some other spot, time and moderator. Whimpered Steve Allen: "I feel like Edison might have felt if they turned down the electric light while...
...celebrities covering, or attempting to cover, the Finch-Tregoff trial, she was the best known. At 46, the mother of three, Reporter Kilgallen conducts a syndicated daily gossip column, shares a daily small-talk radio program with her husband Dick Kollmar, and appears weekly on the television panel show What's My Line? In Los Angeles busy Dorothy sometimes attracted more interest than the trial itself: she posed for pictures with the defendants, signed scores of autographs for admirers, received an orchid from an unidentified California judge. Yet for all that, her copy, rattled off on an electric typewriter...