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...well have asked the question of a subject more general than a bug in a new radio telescope--Harvard astronomy as a whole. For after a distinguished history going back more than a century, in January, 1953, the Observatory was directed to give up one of its stations, the Bloemfontein, South Africa location. The Corporation felt at the time that the Observatory had over-extended itself...
...vital part of the broadening sphere of the Observatory, it now participates in a cooperative plan with five other institutions to share the expense of maintaining an outpost in Bloemfontein, South Africa, one of the prize viewing locations in the Southern Hemisphere.A member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston which maintained the facilities during war, prepares reflector from Pyrex glass...
...last week 25 Black Sashers formed a double line outside the Bloemfontein city hall, where the Nationalist Party was meeting for its annual conference in the Orange Free State. Just before Strydom arrived, 100 husky members of the Nasionale Jeugbond, the Nationalists' youth group, shouldered the women aside, and formed a solid, muscular phalanx inside the Black Sashers' double line. After Strydom had walked through, the Jeugbond huskies turned brusquely, ripped the black sashes off several women, tore up their placards reading "Respect our Constitution." Some shook their fists in the women's faces...
Unintimidated, League headquarters in Johannesburg dispatched ten cars and two airplanes full of Black Sashers to reinforce their embattled sisters in Bloemfontein. "From now on, I will carry a good long hatpin with me, and I am not beyond jabbing somebody with it," said one outraged lady...
This week the visiting British Lions are matched with another South African team, the Junior Springboks, at a game scheduled to-celebrate the opening of a vast new football stadium in Bloemfontein. But this time the cheers for Britain, if any, will be only sporadic. The city fathers of Bloemfontein voted to install no Jim Crow section and instead to ban all non-whites from the stadium. As is usual in South Africa, this was said to be in the blacks' own interest: "The non-Europeans," vouchsafed one Bloemfontein councilman, "derive the greatest benefit from taking part in sport...