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...telescope, under construction at Harvard, Mass., will be the nation's largest radio telescope when completed, with a dish ten feet wider than that of the 50-foot telescope atop the Naval Observatory in Washington...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...
...size of a radio telescope is determined by the diameter of its "dish," a parabolic wire mesh which receives light waves. Radio telescopes have these advantages over optical telescopes: they can be used in daylight and in bad weather, and they "see" through interstellar dust, a factor making them particularly practical for observing the Milky Way. The larger the "dish," the better the definition of the subject observed...
...spend time hunting quail, would take time to prepare "quail hash, the President's favorite dish" [Oct. 31]. Can you come up with the recipe? We would enjoy...
...retailers, the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business Research discovered that most raised prices about 4% to make sure that all extra expenses would be taken care of. Thus, if a shopper filled four books of stamps by buying $480 worth of groceries and won a $13 chafing dish, she would get nothing free. She would pay about $20 in inflated markups. As far back as 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court saw the danger of trading stamps, called them "an appeal to stupidity," and gave states authority to make them illegal. But so far, no states have...