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...Pacific, Joseph L. Brady of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory gave a description of the long-sought tenth planet, complete with its distance from the sun and its current position in the heavens. His "discovery" was made, not by scanning photographic plates, but by analyzing the erratic behavior of Halley's Comet, which comes into view every 76 years (next appearance: 1986), as it nears the sun in its elliptical and far-ranging orbit...
Checking historical observations dating back nearly 1,700 years, Brady found a peculiar irregularity: on each approach to the sun, Halley's Comet shows up as many as four days earlier or later than its predicted arrival date. That variation seemed to indicate that some unknown force must be influencing the comet's motion. Could it be the gravitational tug of a planet beyond Pluto...
THERE are people who have seen Halley's Comet more often than they have seen a play in the Eliot House dining hall. The mere fact that someone has cared enough to mount a show in such unfamiliar surroundings automatically exempts the production from easy sneers about the House's obsession with prep schools and Straus Trophies...
...catch it in the Louis Armstrong version. Hadn't he heard that song before? He sure had. Back in 1948, David had written a tune called Sunflower. It sold 300,000 copies of sheet music and 2,000,000 recordings, but it disappeared from the ionosphere like Halley's comet. It goes like this (in E-flat...
...Harvard boat, crewed by Ned Butler, Bill Cabeen, Kenny Burnes, and Wilson Halley, won three of the five heats...