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...October while I was in London I talked to my aunt on the telephone. A week or so earlier my grandmother had rung for Mrs. Aslett to ask when exactly she was planning to quit working full-time. Mrs. Aslett seemed to shrink even smaller, and replied, "Well, Lady Dyson...
Initial reaction to the abortion proposal seemed generally favorable. Esther Dyson '71 commented, "If your school is supposed to be in loco parentis, then this is one area in which it can make itself useful...
...scientific obstacle to doing it, as every physics student knows. But neither is there any point to it, unless the benefits outweigh the costs. And to give proper scientific credits: mind-boggling rearrangements of the solar system have been discussed before; e.g., by Fritz Zwicky at Caltech and Freeman Dyson at Princeton. Regardless, the examination of the Martian moonlets in situ should become a scientific objective of the highest priority; it could be the key to understanding the origin of the solar system and especially of the inner planets...
...CRIMSON is pleased to announce the election of Robin Barnes '69 of 24 Garden St. and Belmont; Michael J. Barrett '70 of Eliot House and Reading; Laura R. Benjamin '70 of Cabot Hall and Great Neck, N.Y.; Jeffrey D. Blum '70 of Dunster House and N. Bergen, N.J.; Esther Dyson '71 of Eliot Hall and Princeton, N.J.; Nicholas Gagarin '70 of Quincy House and Litchfield, Conn.; Sophie A. Krasik '70 of Comstock Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Elizabeth P. Nadas '69 of Eliot Hall and Wellesley; Mark R. Rasmuson '70 of Winthrop House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Sandra E. Ravich...
...this engaging novel set in the offices of a large London daily. No one on the staff has more than a passing concern for the interests of the paper. One staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn's greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they consume more and more tree...