Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest solar scope six years ago, a massive investigation had to be made merely to find where to place the monster. Astronomers roamed the U.S.; rockets were fired aloft to check on atmospheric conditions; scores of aerial maps were made before the NSF settled on 6,875-ft. Kitt Peak in Arizona. The peak's flat top, high in the clear air, is well above hot desert breezes, but not so high that ice will become a problem. And above it the atmosphere is relatively free of dust and clouds...
...build a giant telescope with a focal length of 300 ft.? Any such mammoth construction high on an exposed peak would surely be swayed by winds, would tremble with the earth's least vibration. The cumbersome structure could hardly serve for delicate solar observations. The astronomers solved that problem by digging down, not building...
Even with Kessler gone, Harvard will be in its best physical shape since the beginning of the season. That news is especially welcome because reports from Tigertown indicate Princeton has also recovered from early season injuries and is at its physical peak...
...Kennedy lead Lodge is not running in the game-little-scrapper tradition of Truman or using the desperation tactics of Nixon. Lodge maintains he confidence and dignity of the winner he seemingly cannot be. Lodge strategy assumes that the Kennedy campaign came to a premature climax. "Teddy reached his peak before the primary. His problem now is to maintain the level; mine is to climax quickly enough." But to anyone who has followed Lodge or Kennedy it is apparent that voter apathy has set in since the primaries...
...machines will be used throughout the day for non-reserve books, reported Henry James, Jr., Lamont librarian. They will not, however, be used for reserve books during "peak" hours...