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...Cambridge, Homer D. Q. Tobit '64 was seen reading Kafka's The Castle in Lamont Library. At 11:24 he glanced out the window of the third level reading room. By 11:25 he had deposited his reading fare in a nearby receptacle, forgotten Humanities 119, and left the tomblike gloom of the library with the comment, "I am going to participate in the rebirth of the land...
Floating Factory. Months of leisurely study showed the wreck to be a small merchantman about 30 ft. long. Fragments of pottery dated it back to around 1200 B.C., the late Bronze Age that Homer wrote about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets...
After putting grasshopper-light radio equipment on high-flying cosmic-ray sounding balloons, making rockets tell about their troubles was simple. Says Caltech Aerodynamics Professor Homer Joe Stuart, a JPL pioneer: "It is interesting to think what the Germans could have done with a Pickering. We learned after the war that they conducted 1,700 test flights with V-2 rockets. That number is unbelievable until you remember that they had no telemetry worth the name. Their severe security kept their best electronics people from coordinating with their rocket program...
...Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God, presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, and now "prophet of the world to come," returned yesterday to Harvard, where he had crowned himself kind...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year attracted 4,291,200 visitors and topped even 1961, the memorable "year of the Rembrandt." when more than 1,000,000 saw the museum's bought-at-auction $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Chicago's Art Institute showed a nice rise to 884,500. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts got a 20% increase in attendance...