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...Map Room oddsmakers are offering 23-2 for a Crimson victory when the feisty undergraduate daily faces off against the Harvard Administration, with Quarterback Derek Bok, at 10 a.m. today on Soldiers Field. The Mass. Hall Manglers outnumber the Crimeds, 3-1, in Vice Presidents (and are gaining ground fast) but Crime field marshal Caldwell Titcomb '47 promises that "we will overcome them with objectivity...
Cambridge Italian residents have been up in arms against the Elis ever since Yale released a map three years ago that claims to prove the vikings discovered America. "They came out with this story just before Columbus Day," Vellucci said recently, "and we haven't forgotten...
Work of the Century. Already, the first families of settlers are moving into the clearings left in the bulldozers' wake. Small backwater towns of the Amazon like Altamira and Maraba (see map) have turned overnight into construction boom towns where disputes are often settled with a gun. In gold-mining Itaituba, for instance, marijuana is literally worth its weight in gold; an ounce of one buys an ounce of the other...
...Almost immediately, earthbound controllers detected radio signals from the $1.7 million instrument package. The satellite's sensors will provide new information about the plasmas and magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon. Ground trackers, recording irregularities in the satellite's orbit, will also be able to map the variations in the moon's gravitational field believed to be caused by "mascons" (for mass concentrations) under some lunar seas. As he caught a glimpse of the gleaming, spinning little moon outside his window, Scott exclaimed: "Tally ho! That's a very pretty satellite out there...
Glorious Spontaneity. Between ocean and mountain stretches the broad, featureless plain whose uninspired development Banham calls "Anywheresville/ Nowheresville." But soon freeways stamped man's imprint on this heartland too. Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized...