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...hoped that he will, but he may not. The present, after all, is a ghost of less substance than the unmelting snows that mantle his youth. "The snow is real," he writes, imagining some long-ago blizzard, "and as I bend to it and scoop up a handful, 60 years crumble to glittering frost-dust between my fingers...
Yale, too, was proud as punch (Kingman Brewster felt it a "great privilege") that Vassar might be willing to scoop her classrooms and labs into her purse and scamper over the Berkshires to the sea. And it is a sacrifice on the part of Vassar. A football weekend in New Haven is all very well, but to live there. Smokestacks. Grimy water. Yale men. Everywhere. Hundreds of them...
...Scooped on the Scoop...
...erroneously credit the Wall Street Journal with scoring a scoop in July on the fact that a 7-lb. TV camera developed by Westinghouse was scheduled to provide live coverage on the first Apollo manned mission to the moon [Aug. 19]. Aviation Week printed the first story on this camera and its moon mission Jan. 10, and ran a picture of the camera a week later, along with the story that NASA was studying the feasibility of converting its black and white capability to color for transmission from the lunar surface...
...analysis of a comet might provide valuable information about the beginnings of the solar system. To obtain a sample for such a study, some scientists suggest, an unmanned spacecraft should be shot into the orbit of a regularly reappearing comet. The craft would rendezvous with the comet, land and scoop up some surface material. Then, after a brief, blazing ride through the sky, it would blast off for earth, bringing back a sample of the stuff the comet is made...