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...team of scientists from Harvard and the Smithsonian Physical Observatory is still anxiously awaiting the ideal visibility of the cosmic nomad named Kohoutek in early January, despite reports from England that the comet is disintegrating...
Brian Marsden, lecturer in Astronomy and director of the Telegraph Bureau of the International Astronomers' Union, yesterday denied the reports. "Spectacular comets often lose bits of their tails," he said. "But this comet will be hale and hearty for a long time...
William A. Deutschman, associate of the Harvard College Observatory and coordinator of Operation Kohoutek for the Smithsonian, said yesterday that the Smithsonian is the "clearing house for all world observations of Kohoutek" and has access to the best and latest information on the comet. "The Smithsonian's data does not show anything like this [the disintegration] happening," Deutschman said...
...understatement. For 6 hr. 34 min. 35 sec. last week, two of the three Skylab 3 astronauts, Air Force Lieut. Colonel William Pogue and Physicist Edward Gibson, worked outside their giant orbital station, set up cosmic-ray detectors, made repairs and prepared to take their first good look at Comet Kohoutek. The Thanksgiving Day walk in space, longer by 3 min. 2 sec. than the record jaunt of the Skylab 2 astronauts, marked an auspicious beginning for a historic journey: the last and, NASA hopes, longest (84 days) of the three Skylab missions...
...With the comet Kahouteck, a new fervor of denial is called for and the bigs cars which once paraded by the ocean's edge are suddenly forgotten in this new age, ashtrays big as bathtubs unfulfilled. The new car aerosol, eau de new car, settles feebly into the floormats, unsmelled. These cars to be remaindered. Their loss to the nation would in a sense be a measure of the boy's unfulfilled responsibility, a symbol of his removal from the social machinery. His capacity to do good for his fellow citizens was as fleeting as the tire tracks...