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...room is hung with photographs of himself doing handstands. Each is labelled. "Sergei at 73" "Sergei at 67" etc. Gaposhkin describes his life's ideals in classical Greek terms. "I aimed to perfect my mind and my body." Tiny but muscular, the 77 year-old Gaposhkin is irrepressible. In the midst of conversation he stretches his arms up to the ceiling and implores God, "Why did You give me this incredible desire?" He is a bit of a dandy too; his yellow and brown patent leather shoes dictate the tone of his dress...
...Gaposhkin has been around the Observatory since 1933. As he says in his opus, SERGEI, or the Divine Scramble, "Harvard College Observatory greeted very sweetly the stranger SERGEI, coming from the superior Regions of Divine power in Mind, Heart, Frame, as if knowing that he will contribute to Harvard a glory second to none; will discover 13 most remarkable stars and catch more star-stellar denizens than all astronomers observers at Harvard since its foundation in 1843..." Unpublished in two volumes (so far ...he is working on a third), SERGEI combines the hour-by-hour detail of Gorky's Autobiography...
...Gaposhkin will talk on any subject, the bigger the better. He expands on universal peace and love, on a letter he wrote to President Nixon: "I said we should take all the biggest bombs, and drop them in the biggest ocean." Before technological progress gave birth to Space War, stargazing seems to have had a pacific influence...
...which the Tower, the dome and the telescope itself have decayed rapidly. Wolbach, distressed, would like to restore the Tower from the bottom up. "This room, the rotunda at the base here, has potential," he says, walking around the granite pier that supports the Refractor. Brilliant murals signed "Sergei Gaposhkin, 1957" line the walls. Wolbach frowns at them. "A Russian individual by the name of Sergei Gaposhkin--Dr. Gaposhkin--was given liberties, here. He, ahem, found the ultraviolet paint, as you see, and then he--painted." Wolbach comes down with emphasis on the last word, and stops in front...
...Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposhkin, chairman of the Astronomy Department, commented yesterday that direction and the shapes of the orbits of Neptune's satellites indicate that they have had an "exciting adventure." She termed Kuiper's theory "plausible, but not certain by any means...