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...Ikeya-Seki comet may have seemed a dud to casual observers who were screened from its spectacular passage by assorted weather conditions. It was by no means a disappointment to astronomers. Never before has a comet undergone such detailed scientific scrutiny-from observatories around the world, from specially outfitted jet planes, from NASA's sounding rockets...
...Beranek is the acoustician who designed Philharmonic Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. He spent four years planning what should be the country's leading concert hall, yet critics keep saying that he created an acoustical dud. See MUSIC...
...Lincoln Center management says New York Philharmonic Hall will be "the finest musical instrument in America." 1962: Hall opens. Critics say it is acoustical dud-mushy, strident, dry, opaque, flat, cold. Hall's 136 sound-reflecting "clouds," suspended from ceiling, are tilted, lowered, raised. No help. Diffusion of sound so unbalanced that best vantage point is, ironically, cheapest seat in top balcony. New York Philharmonic musicians complain they cannot hear each other onstage, say hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall...
...Charles E. Goodell, chairman of the committee that produced the white paper, described it as "a work of scholarship" rather than a political document. He was right: it stated the history of the war dispassionately-if selectively-but as a vote getter or reputation smircher it was a dud. Ike declined to support the Republican paper, as did Everett Dirksen, who, like Eisenhower, has backed L.B.J. all the way on Viet...
Springfield fought back in the ninth inning after Harvard's rally had put the Crimson in front, 6 to 4. Larry Newman singled, Dud Davis walked, and a sacrifice put men on and second and third. But McCandlish hore down and got the next two batters to hit infield grounders, ending the game...