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...visiting astronomers, Harvard is part of the short Eastern swing of a month-long scientific exchange. Most of their time will be spent at research centers in the West such as Kitt Peak Observatory in Tucson, Arizona...
...Boeing 747 plant at Everett, Wash., the world's largest building in terms of capacity (200 million cubic feet), is busier now than at any time since the early 1970s when the 747 jumbo was new and the competitive rush to put it into service was at its peak. McDonnell Douglas expects to deliver 18 jumbo DC-10s next year, about the same as this year, plus nearly 40 smaller DC-9s between now and the end of 1977. Even scandal-scarred Lockheed Aircraft is doing moderately well with its jumbo TriStar. Lockheed failed to book a single TriStar...
Fifty-six-year-old Australian pro Kel Nagle took a one-stroke lead in an international golf tournament at Melbourne yesterday. Nagle, who won the World Seniors in 1971, reached the peak of his career in 1960 when he won the centenary British Open at St. Andrews, staving off the closing charge of a young Arnold Palmer...
...cover painting [Oct. 11] by Bob Peak is eloquent. It seems to capture a suspended moment in an evolving world fraught with terror, illumined with hope...
Question 7 would set uniform electric rates and would allow "peak load" pricing policies for all consumers of electricity. Flat rates are a desirable national policy, and support for this proposal would do a great deal to further that goal. The states that take the first steps to establish flat-rate policies may be temporarily penalized by some industrial cutbacks, but a study by Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor, reports that the state's economy will eventually be stronger with flat rates...