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Since last August, Mr. Gaposchkin has been photographing the southern stars at the Australian Common-wealth Observatory, where former Harvard professor Bart J. Bok will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...
Tall, silver-haired, with electric-blue eyes, d'Entreves finds relaxation in rambling through the Northern Italian Alps near his birthplace. Aside from climbing, he is an avid collector of classical records and has a deep interest in and love of music. Although he has not taught political theory for several years, d'Entreves feels totally at home in the subject, and is glad to return...
...Ogle children, except for 18-year-old Eric, who is now a Navy communications technician in North Africa, and Sandra, 20, who will continue nurse's training in Denver, were delighted about the move to Canada. All avid campers and fishermen, they looked forward to new adventures in rich and rugged western Canada. Soon after he heard about the transfer, son Kelly, 7, sighed: "I'm waiting about as fast...
...fourth-through-eighth-graders in New Jersey's Caldwell Township school, half are now working for various L.C.A. merit buttons. Some members have become such avid readers that one mother complained: "I can't get my children to bed any more. They want to sit up and read...
Although Harvard went down to defeat today, the avid Crimson fan can seek solace in the pages of history...