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...Gardners settled in Beacon Street. Mrs. Jack studied Dante under Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton, read poetry aloud with Novelist F. Marion Crawford, sat for a portrait by John Singer Sargent, paid Paderewski $1,000 to play for her privately at home, entertained Henry James at tea (James described the effects of a chat with her as "absolute vertigo"). She wore diamonds in her hair, hung ropes of pearls around her waist, traveled to Europe, Egypt, Java, Japan and Cambodia...
Massachusetts likes to remind its sister states that it is first in several educational fields. Last week in the Statehouse atop Beacon Hill, Republican Governor John Volpe boasted about some of those historical attainments: first public school (1635), first U.S. college (1636), first state board of education (1837), first state teacher-training college (1839), first compulsory school attendance law (1852). Then he proudly signed a bill making Massachusetts the first state to ban de facto school segregation...
Married. William J. Lederer, 53, author (Ensign O'Toole and Me, A Nation of Sheep), former collaborator of Eugene Burdick (see below); and Ruth Corinne ("Corky") Edwards Lewis, 38, co-publisher with Lederer of the Honolulu Beacon, local monthly humor magazine; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
...Sandia scientists twice lofted beacon lights up to 65,000 ft. and allowed them to drift down by parachute through the part of the atmosphere that was suspected of causing twinkling. Each descent was continuously observed with a 16-in. tracking telescope equipped to record the scintillations. The scientists concluded that 80% of the high-frequency scintillation occurs in a layer of atmosphere about 5,000 ft. deep, at altitudes of between...
...radio transmitter was recently used in the rescue of a U.S. airman downed in the jungles of North Viet Nam. The transmitter emits a sirenlike radio beacon on preset frequencies, enabling rescuers to home in on survivors...