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...view from ground-based obser vatories is of great impor tance as well. It was with the mammoth 200-incher at Palomar Observatory in California that Astronomers David C. Jewitt and G. Edward Danielson first spied Halley's, on Oct. 16, 1982, when it was more than 1 billion miles from earth. Ever since then, most of the world's major telescopes have been trained on the comet at some point. At Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., Astronomers Lawrence Wasserman and Edward Bowell have calculated 40 points on the comet's route at which it will pass directly in front...
Incidentally, Dolby and the Clinton crew combine on a 12-incher entitled MAY THE CUBE BE WITH YOU, from Dolby's upcoming Brit-funk LP. The song reminds us that Dolby's mindless career since "Blinded Me With Science" can still be salvaged. He just took the wrong road when it diverged in the ol' yellow wood...
...practiced. By the morning of March 4, there were only two fish left in his aquarium: a two-incher and a four-incher. The two-incher was downed during the day. At 6:30 that evening, before a large crowd at the Union, he swallowed the four-incher. The crowd cheered. The Boston press heard. The wire services picked it up. Goldfish swallowing spread...
...freshmen were among the challengers. Two months after he swallowed the four-incher, Lothrop Withington and ten others, including Endicott Peabody II, complained that the Houses were rejecting the leaders of the freshman class and accepting mediocre upperclassmen. They were going to fight for a strict merit system...
...have always argued that solid-fuel rockets can be increased in size much more easily than engines that burn liquids. Solid fuels, in fact, have been the backbone of U.S. military missile power ever since the success of Polaris and Minuteman. Built for the Air Force, the U.A.C. 120-incher is part of Titan III, which will consist of Martin Marietta Corp.'s liquid-fueled Titan II rocket, already operational, with two of the new solid-fuel boosters to help it into space with 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...