Word: questar
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Although at one point our World section brashly tried to annex the moon as its news territory, the duty of moon watching over the years has, of course, belonged to the Science section and its editor since 1945, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Through his Questar telescope, which he also uses for bird watching, Leonard often observes the moon from his home at Hastings-on-Hudson. Like everyone else, Leonard is excited about the Ranger VII pictures, but sees "a lot of unexplained things in them." As for putting a man on the moon, Leonard doesn't think the U.S. will...