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...expense will find a welcome solution in the University Extension Courses. For a $5 fee--and ninety minutes one night a week--students may take any one of 34 college level courses and may still end up with the same professor they would have paid $100 to hear by daylight. Financed by the Lowell Institute to foster adult education, these basic courses in 19 fields remain open for registration through next Friday...
...writing with reference to the interesting situation created by various legislators in Providence, Boston, and Concord, N.H. While the remainder of the U.S. is abandoning Daylight Saving Time for the winter, these gentlemen would have us continue with what purports to be Eastern Daylight Saving Time. This is a misnomer, since such time has been abandoned everywhere else. The truth is that we are being led on a temporary sojourn into the Atlantic Standard Time Zone...
...Country Boy." When McKay was governor of Oregon-his biggest job before coming to Washington with Ike-two of the toughest decisions he faced were whether to proclaim daylight time (thus annoying farmers) and whether to ban hunting when forests were tinder-dry (thus annoying Oregon's legions of deerslayers). In Washington McKay's horizons have enlarged considerably, without affecting the size of his hat. As Interior Secretary, he is the nation's biggest landlord, greatest giver of light and water, master of forest and range, controller of minerals and oil, boss of 56,000 people...
Bigger & Faster. The Air Force wanted the 6-17 to fight over Europe as a daylight bomber. To carry the air war across the Pacific to Japan...
...over Greenland, it was waylaid by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Britain's Astronomer Royal and lord of Herstmonceux Castle, now the Royal Observatory. Sir Harold chased the shadow from Greenland to Iceland in an R.A.F. bomber, prolonging his view of totality by 22 seconds as he looked for daylight aurorae. He saw none...