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Poet W. H. Auden will speak at 3 p.m. tonight at Mount Holyoke's Chapin Auditorium, South Hadley, as part of the college's 125th anniversary celebration. Three Massachusetts candidates for the U.S. Senate will speak there later in the year: Edward M. Kennedy '54 (March 5); Edward J. McCormack (March 13); and George Cabot Lodge '50 (April...
...Freedom Forum meeting in Greenwich, Conn., 800 citizens recently paid $5 apiece to sit through a day of patriotic films, speeches on dialectical materialism and attacks on the U.S. State Department, federal income tax, philanthropic foundations and Harvard University. Questions to speakers were written out, explained Mrs. Charles Chapin, one of the meeting's sponsors, in order to screen those coming from Communists who might be in the audience...
During the 1960-61 school year, 27,000 large, wall-sized color prints of nine maps, done originally for TIME by Staff Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr. and his assistants, were sent to schools. Included in the group sent out so far in 1961 were maps of Laos, the Congo, Algeria and Red China. Scheduled to go out before the end of the year are new maps of Brazil, Australia and Berlin, the last accompanied by a Berlin bibliography from TIME reaching back...
...Soviet Union last week finally and formally broke silence on where Major Yuri Gagarin was sent into orbit (Baikonur), and where he returned to earth (Smelovka). TIME'S Mapmaker R. M. Chapin Jr. hit it on the button in the April 21 cover story on Gagarin...
...Chapin knew that Russia's Canaveral is in the area around Tyuratam, east of the Aral Sea, and that the angle of orbit of the shot to the Equator was 65° in the direction of Siberia. From this he could construct the orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that...