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Major telescopes, from Mount Palomar's giant 200-in. reflector on down, will follow Kohoutek across the sky. NASA, too, will go all out, sponsoring Operation Kohoutek, a multimillion-dollar effort involving hundreds of scientists and the latest space-age technology...
...space agency will fly planes equipped with infra-red telescopes-both before and after the comet makes its pass around the sun (see diagram). A special comet observatory is being built on South Baldy Mountain, near Socorro, N. Mex. NASA will also launch several rockets carrying instruments to observe the comet from above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mariner 10, an unmanned spacecraft scheduled to be launched on Nov. 3 for a flyby of Venus and Mercury, will transmit a TV picture of Kohoutek. Pioneer 8, another satellite already in orbit around the sun, should be in position...
...NASA doctors now know that the loss does not result from a destruction of red blood cells but from a shutdown of production facilities in the bone marrow. Upon returning to gravity, the body requires one to five weeks to start up production again. "Medically," says NASA Flight Surgeon Charles Ross, "that is one for the sleuths...
...already begun along with other groups to collect 7500 signatures to put the initiative petition controlling high-rise development on the ballot this November. Cambridge has suffered too much already from Rindge Towers, NASA developments in Kendall Square, university expansion, and cheap, fast-turnover stores. If this were not enough, the prospect of even more developments like the Hyatt Hotel, the Kanavos' Holiday Inn, and the Kennedy Library is increasing the value of property all over Cambridge...
...skilled job market, and commuting costs to the budget of local working people. Harvard has become by far Cambridge's largest employer, adding to the conflict of interest in local politics. The bulk of new jobs in the city are the MIT-generated white-collar employers of commuting suburbanites (NASA-Tech Square, Badget, A.D. Little). Partial exceptions with some assembly operations, like Polaroid and the hi-fi industries, began similarly as research units and only later generated jobs, and, like Polaroid, have a tendency to locate expansion facilities outside Cambridge. The City Council panders to these and other intensive profit...