Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert W. Noyes, lecturer on Astron omy, left over a week ago to set up camp in a converted railway car in the mountains east of Arequipa...
...other Harvard scientists are also participating in the international study, but from a secure position in Cambridge. They will direct an experiment from here using the information relayed from a tracking telescope at Arequipa, Peru...
Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, flew to Arequipa last week. Menzel, a seasoned eclipse-observer with well over a dozen expeditions to his record, will be aboard a jet plane as November 12 dawns, at a height that will assure cloud-free visibility regardless of the weather below. Being airborne will also serve to prolong the viewing duration o the eclipse. For ground-based Noyes, totality will last about 90 seconds; but by flying at jet speed in the direction that the sun travels across the sky, Menzel will keep up with the eclipse...
Last week, Jay M. Pasochoff '63, teaching fellow in Astronomy, and James P. Pollack, associate of the Harvard College Observatory, sent detailed directions to the technicians at the Baker-Nunn telescope at Arequipa, and now have nothing to do but wait for November...
...have chosen freedom!"-only to have a nearby yachtsman return him to prison. All through the next week, Acción Popular demonstrations continued, until the government let him go just to be rid of him. Returning to the mainland, Belaúnde hugged his parents, then thundered: "Arequipa awaits me," and charged off to a tumultuous demonstration in his family home town down the coast...