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...into orbit, perhaps the most useful to man was Tiros I, the "weather eye," whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of its predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...
Born. To Pat Suzuki, 29, tiny (4 ft. 11 in.), brassy-voiced singer who made it big in Broadway's Flower Drum Song, and Mark Shaw, 38, fashion photographer: their first child, a son; in New York. Name: Joseph. Weight...
...from Tokyo in the north to Colombo deep in the Indian Ocean, governments and businessmen are frenziedly trying to please all types of tourists. New resorts are being built and old ones modernized. In Japan, baseball, amusement parks and horse racing compete with such traditional attractions as the drum pounding, seasonal festivals in honor of dolls, hollyhocks, chrysanthemums and cherry blossoms. Tokyo, the world's largest city, has more bars and coffee houses than Rome and Paris put together. Nightclubs are either as big as gymnasiums or so intimate that the hostesses have no place...
Gradually, she found herself becoming intersted in constitutional law and comparative national government. And then, with the fight for female franchise just beginning to gather force, Maud Wood Park (Radcliffe '93) ventured into the Midwest to drum up support for her nation-wide College Equal Suffrage League. With her tireless intellectual energy and immense personal charm, Mrs. Parks, later to chair the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the crucial years of 1917 to 1920, immediately won over the girls at Western Reserve. "The girls in college who were the leaders--the bright, up and coming...
...supported his candidate's stand for a firm policy against Castro, whom he said he had "created drum-head courts, murdered people, and seized American property without so much as an I.O.U...