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...More Precious Than Gold...
...Tech was taking no chances with the world's most precious piece of glass. As it dared the perils of Southern California highways last week, the 200-inch mirror for the giant Mt. Palomar telescope, 160 miles away, was insured with Lloyd's for $600,000 and was escorted by 15 cops...
...astronomers, engineers and technicians thanked all the stars as they watched the mirror backed into the observatory. The case was opened. A crane lifted the precious freight over the threshold of the chamber under the dome, where the giant telescope, crouched on its massive supports, was waiting...
...eagerness to plunge into his field of concentration, such an adviser shows him the pitfalls of a narrow first year curriculum. When a Freshman is doubtful of the line his college career will take, this adviser attempts to aid him, to guide him, to keep him from wasting precious months and precious courses heading up a dead-end program...
...Gold. In the U.S. and British zones, democracy has a fingernail hold, and production is rising. Ruhr coal- precious as black gold for all of Europe-increased last week to 274,000 tons a day, a postwar high...