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...their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop the 780 miles from Italian Sardinia to Spanish rebel forces in Morocco. Eighteen of them reached Melilla, Spanish Morocco, successfully...
...onetime farmer and garage mechanic, Leslie C. Peltier is now a commercial draftsman by day. Eighteen years ago, after reading a book called The Friendly Stars, he made his first telescope, a puny two-incher. Both Princeton and Harvard have now lent him larger instruments. He has observed some 47,000 heavenly bodies, is the sole discoverer of two previous comets, co-discoverer of three others. In 1933 Nova Ophiuchi, a variable star which had not flared up since 1898, flared up again. Peltier was the first to see the outburst. Harvard passed on word of it to observatories...
Merely a cursory examination of the roster, however, produces certain distinct impressions. The whole world, eighteen countries in all, including the United States, is representated, a fact which itself indicates how great a demonstration Harvard will make on this occasion. Brains and the patience to apply them to the search for truth are monopolized by no country or race. Little Switzerland will receive five degrees, half as many as Germany; Denmark gets two as does Japan; the United States leads with fourteen followed by England with twelve. All fields of human knowledge are covered, at least indirectly. Science is heavily...
...Eighteen men will comprise the corps of ushers for the annual Freshman Jubilee, according to R. Bennett Forbes, Head Usher for the affair...
...Eighteen of the 23 Cabinet members were up for reelection. None was defeated outright, but at least four, Air Minister Marcel Deat, Minister of National Education Henri Guernut, Minister of Justice Yvon Delbos and Undersecretary for Technical Education Jules Julien, will have to stand the embarrassment of a runoff...