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THERE are people who have seen Halley's Comet more often than they have seen a play in the Eliot House dining hall. The mere fact that someone has cared enough to mount a show in such unfamiliar surroundings automatically exempts the production from easy sneers about the House's obsession with prep schools and Straus Trophies...
...years, E.A.A. has compiled an estimable safety record, survived the turbulence of independence from Britain, built up a jet-age fleet that includes three Super VC-10s and three Comet 4s. Grandly declaring itself "the fastest-growing airline in black Africa," it has more than doubled revenues from 1962 to last year's record $36.4 million. And few airlines can claim anything like its earnings record. For each of the past 14 years, E.A.A. has had a comfortable profit; last year it cleared an estimated...
...eventful century to be exceptional in. The hundred years witnessed the French Revolution, the comet streak of Napoleon, the expanding British Empire abroad, the Industrial Revolution at home. In art, the era was marked by the emergence of Romanticism, that peculiar cult of the divine in nature, the grotesque, the bizarre, the irrational and the emotional...
...polisher and earns $72.22 per month-enough to leave $6 per month for astronomy expenses after he contributes to the support of his mother and five brothers and sisters. Constructing his own 6-and 8-in. telescopes, Ikeya began scanning the sky in 1962 and discovered his first comet the following year...
...star-struck ever since. Beginning his observations in 1950, he patiently peered through a variety of homemade telescopes for eleven years without finding anything new. He was on the verge of surrendering and concentrating on his $150-per-month job as guitar instructor when he spotted his first new comet in the constellation...