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Scientific Booty. As the first men to circumnavigate the moon, the three will never again be able to return completely to their former lives. When they reached Houston, they had already been hailed in almost every nook and cranny of their native planet, including a somewhat envious Soviet Union. As scientific booty from their journey, they brought back photographs, both moving and still, so marvelous as to beggar the imagination of even the most dreamful of their fellow earthlings. Now they faced a schedule that, to them, might be even more wearying than their historic voyage: weeks of press conferences...
Former Harvard halfback great, Bobby Leo, one of the coordinators of the rally, said the band will start its journey to Widener from Dillon Field House at the end of the varsity practice and wend its way through the Houses picking up support at every nook and crannie where potential fans might be huddled...
...current exhibit, Spock has remodeled an old auditorium. One result is "Grandfather's Cellar," a nook that introduces children to the world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
...study not listed in the catalogue with the supervision of a willing Faculty member. Originally Independent Study was meant to provide a mechanism by which good students could reduce their course load from four to three. The idea was that most students would choose to explore some obscure nook of their special field and would not want or ask for much Faculty supervision. Neither expectation has turned out to be true, but the rules governing Independent Study are still based on the old theory rather than the present reality...
...Nook Talk. Inside, the center is splen-diferously outfitted, from the enclosed semicircular staircase leading up from its parking lot to the cloud-physics laboratory on the roof. The main floor includes a dining terrace and an internal courtyard with a reflecting pool. On other floors are networks of offices and labs, with instruments and a computer to assemble and analyze data collected on N.C.A.R. field trips and at observation stations all over the world...