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Ernest Dahlman Jr. has rare scholarly attributes: a tenacious memory, a sense of judgment, a knack for making fast decisions, a willingness to study hard, and a near-perfect attendance record...
...Near-Perfect Parabola. Haystack is the property of the Air Force, was designed and built by M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory and North American Aviation Inc. for $15 million. Of the total cost, $5,000,000 went in fees for computers, which designed and redesigned the antenna 42 times. The painstaking expense was worth it, producing an antenna that misses, by the thickness of a paper match, being a perfect parabola. Haystack can resolve objects down to 1/60th of a degree, could zero in on an area of the moon just 225 miles in diameter v. 4,500 miles...
Sometimes the humor seems forced, the North Country slang impenetrable. And, in truth, a more exciting and at the same time more perceptive view of a Beatle's insular existence is projected in a documentary feature titled What's Happening!-The Beatles in the U.S.A. Made with near-perfect fidelity by Albert and David Maysles, a brother team of American independent film makers who shot it on the spot with a handheld camera and portable sound gear, this bristling, hilarious account of the sound and fury generated during a public-appearance tour was shown on British television...
...ATHENS, OHIO: To 8,000 Ohio University students massed beneath huge elm trees on the campus, the President gave a near-perfect summation of his credo: "I know that we live in an age when it is considered correct to play it cool, when it is right to be reserved, when it is not good form to show great faith. But I believe with Emerson that no great work is ever achieved without enthusiasm...
Wagner: Siegfried (London). Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and a near-perfect cast (Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen and Joan Sutherland) in the first complete and uncut version of Wagner's magical vision of Teutonic lore...