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...NOTEBOOK: Don't tell the Quincy House dining hall ladies, but Dartmouth's Thayer dining room serves better bread (and other food) than its Harvard counterparts. Nothing fancy, but fresh, out-of-the-oven bread, and you cut it yourself... The first thing the Crimson hoop squad saw as its bus steamed into Hanover was a still-unfinished ice sculpture of that master of kiddie lit, Dr. Seuss. After a little investigative reporting, one learned that the good doctor is a Dartmouth alumnus and this weekend's Winter Carnival is a tribute to him.... Football wide receiver-turned-basketball forward...
...Many critics, recoiling at the potential cost of $100 billion or so for the first satellite, called his idea a pie-in-the-sky space boondoggle. Others worried about the effects of microwave radiation, fretting that passengers in passing airplanes might be flash-cooked like roasts in a microwave oven...
...beam would always be locked on target; in fact, it would disperse altogether if the satellite did not receive continuous electronic cues from a transmitter in the rectenna. Along its edge, said Glaser, the beam would be much less powerful than permissible leak age from a closed microwave oven...
DIED. Laurence Marshall, 91, electronics entrepreneur who founded the Raytheon Co. in 1922 and built it into a diversified company that played an important role in the development of radar, the Hawk missile and the microwave oven; in Cambridge, Mass. Upon his retirement in 1950, Marshall fulfilled a lifelong interest in anthropology by taking his family on an expedition to study the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, an adventure later recounted in The Harmless People (1959) by his daughter, Elizabeth, and The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) by his wife Lorna...
...House they call him "Butt-fucker" because he does all the dirty work. He's the guy they turn to when a hot water pipe bursts in the gameroom at 2 a.m. or when the Toast-R-Oven short-circuits the entire first floor. When they had a Hawaiian party and didn't know what to do with all the sand, he figured out a way to truck it down the block to a tiny tributary of the Charles. To this day, Butt-fucker's Beach lies invitingly under the overpass, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Charles Gate...