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...DIED. WILLIAM PICKERING, 93, quiet giant of the U.S. space program; in La Ca?ada Flintridge, California. An ?migr? from New Zealand, Pickering was part of the team that launched the U.S.'s first satellite in 1958. For 22 years, he was chief of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which during his tenure conducted America's manned missions to the Moon and sent pioneering probes to Venus and Mars...
...call himself on it isn't helping him change. "I'm one to leap up from the mat to aid all manner of strangers and tourists and other wide-eyed foreigners," he admits, "but when it comes to loved ones and family I can hardly ungear myself from the La-Z-Boy, and want only succor and happy sufferance in return." The only place he feels truly at peace is in the air, where "all the trees seem ideally formed and arranged, as if fretted over by a persnickety florist god." But the thing about flying is, eventually you have...
...fading into Bolivian” down the stretch, falling to the South Region’s third-seed Texas. (I flat out refuse to refer to the brackets by regional sites, unless they’re humorous to say. On my short list would be Hygiene, Colo., Dry Prong, La. and Pysht, Wash...
With O’Donnell Field covered in snow most of this week, the team was pushed back indoors as it readied itself for its second test of the season—a weekend slate of two-games each with Michigan and Louisiana-Lafayette which begins tomorrow in Lafayette, LA...
...series on “Bathers, Bodies and Beauty” with another perspective into impressionism. With a critical eye, Professor Nochlin challenges the role of women in 19th century art, offering a feminist perspective. This week’s lecture, Monet’s Hôtel de la Roche Noire: Anxiety and perspective at the seashore, will use a modern eye to find this painting in the context of history. Tickets free. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre...