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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, whose operations are centered in a small office building at 79 Garden St. in Cambridge, was set up in June 1956 by the government to take charge of certain United States projects scheduled for the IGY, most important of which was the earth satellite program...
Stewart also contributes the only creative work of the issue, a sort of opium illusion called "A Mango For Emelina." Magnolia-mashed Colonel Ashcroft ("a memento of a dead nation's long ago Armageddon") stalks to a garden rendezvous with his boyhood love, Emelina. As he bends to kiss...
...green clown," said Owner Arthur ("Bull") Hancock Jr. of his leggy bay colt Nadir as he got up the final $1,000 of the $2,385 entry fee that gave him the privilege of watching Nadir horse around in the $277,150 Garden State Stakes, richest race in the world. To make the picture complete, Nadir had something of a cutup in the saddle too: rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front...
Many years ago some Indians were playing rugby in the Garden of Eden with a Harvard man who insisted upon carrying the ball and kicking extra points. Thus American football, new and exciting, came into being. As spectator crowds got bigger and bigger, another Harvard man decided to sell tickets and the HAA ticket office was born. Eventually both enterprises became very complicated institutions...
...Cambridge scientists seemed a little blase about the whole thing last night. Fred L. Whipple was more than usually restrained as he commented at the Garden St. headquarters of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that the second Russian launching probably required no greater effort than the first. Whipple speculated, as have most other American scientists, that the 1,120-pound object speeding around the earth is the third-stage of the rocket rather than a spherical satellite...