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Despite its apparent success, the popular-culture department is regarded with less than complete enthusiasm by many of Bowling Green's faculty members. Says pop cult Assistant Professor Michael Marsden: "There's still the suspicion that we're pandering to popular tastes and faddism." There may be some cause for this suspicion. Even its sup- porters admit that popular culture is not a well-understood discipline. One question on the final exam for the introduction-to-pop course this month asked, "How would you now explain to your parents what this popular-culture stuff is all about...
...local hospitals offering free breast checks are now booked through next July. Dr. Robert Olson, a Chicago gynecologist, reports that his patient load has doubled. The publicity surrounding the Ford and Rockefeller operations has also had an impact overseas. In London, for example, the "Well Woman Clinic" at Royal Marsden Hospital has been so swamped with calls that it has appealed to women not to turn up without referral by a doctor...
Dirty Coat. As is customary, Kohoutek immediately sent word of the sightings to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. Under the direction of Astronomer Brian Marsden, the bureau acts as a world clearinghouse for news of astronomical discoveries. It soon became evident to Marsden that the second comet was no ordinary visitor from distant space. After making some rush observations of his own ("We spent a very tense weekend out at Harvard Observatory's Agassiz Station"), he reported that the comet Kohoutek had been sighted at a distance of roughly...
...Brian Marsden, lecturer in Astronomy and director of the Telegraph Bureau of the International Astronomers' Union, yesterday denied the reports. "Spectacular comets often lose bits of their tails," he said. "But this comet will be hale and hearty for a long time...
...solar wind," the stream of electrically charged particles that continually emanate from the sun, the material from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked eye in daylight just before its close approach to the sun in December, and even more spectacularly in the evening during January as it begins to move away. Perhaps the most remarkable sight will...