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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palomar see only tiny patches of sky. They need a more wide-eyed instrument to tell them where to look. Last week CalTech and the National Geographic Society announced a joint project to map the whole sky in search of interesting objects for big telescopes to study in detail. The society will supply the funds; CalTech, which runs Palomar Observatory, will supply the Schmidt telescope to do the mapping...
Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
Nonetheless, the plan for the most startling part of U.N.'s headquarters, the Secretariat, was completed. It had been supervised by Architect Wallace K. Harrison, who also helped design Rockefeller Center. Described this week in detail in the June issue of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, it was bound to stir up a second storm: the final blueprints were even more strikingly "modern" than the original...
Keep Fighting. Thus last week a cowardly attack was repeated in Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...
Rusk goes over the tedium and labor of Emerson's lectures with great detail. A reader not familiar with Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...