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Senator Paul Douglas is justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...
Such great telescopes as the 200-incher on Mt. Palomar see only tiny patches of sky. They need a more wide-eyed instrument to tell them where to look. Last week CalTech and the National Geographic Society announced a joint project to map the whole sky in search of interesting objects for big telescopes to study in detail. The society will supply the funds; CalTech, which runs Palomar Observatory, will supply the Schmidt telescope to do the mapping...
...young officer grinned and relented. On a map which showed the houses to be demolished he drew a small circle around the Hawkings place; the little bit of Britain stubbornly holding out against China's civil war was safe again, for the moment...
Pitman has eight assistants for the modeling work plus Henry H. Brooks '22 who paints the backgrounds and Rupert B. Lillie who does the historical research on the Harvard models. Pitman met Lillie when he overheard him trying to sell a map of early Harvard to the librarian in the Harvard Club of Boston. When he saw the map, Pitman was impressed and, before long, hired Lillie to do the research on the Harvard series which was just beginning. The Studio uses students from the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture and the Cambridge School of Design to help with...
Professors Bart J. Bok and Harlow Shapley are trying to map this huge disc-shaped "island universe," which includes the earth and every star that the naked eye can see. Both of them are measuring the distance to far-away suns, to determine their relative positions in the galaxy and thus the shape of the galaxy itself...