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...different difficulties. Just as planned, one of its bright-eyed optical sensors locked on the sun, the craft's prime navigational reference and power source for its solar cells. But when another sensor began searching the heavens for a second reference point-the giant, blue-white star Canopus-Mariner got confused and began looking around in all directions...
...Canopus Institution (See-Eye) the students are shackled by more than sightlessness. Dr. August, the director, is an icy administrator who thinks the blind really are a different breed, not inhuman, perhaps, but difficult wards of the sighted. What he can least abide is the merest evidence that the blind can also love. The boys and the girls are taught in the same classrooms but they may not associate. A passed note conceived in puppy love is enough to bring down severe punishment. A stolen kiss, a harmless rendezvous, may result in being "shipped," and the likelihood that no other...
...Canopus is the second brightest star in the heavens. Last week the Stratocruiser Canopus roared out of the sky onto Washington's National Airport, and out popped Sir Winston Churchill, arriving on an errand which shed only enough light to call attention to the encircling gloom...
...turning the big projector around its horizontal axis, the lecturer can light up the sky with the stars of any latitude. Traveling along a meridian from pole to pole, he can take his audience to the Arctic, or south to see Canopus and the Magellanic Clouds...
...Named after the second brightest star. In Greek mythology, Canopus was the steersman of famed Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of even more famed Helen of Troy...