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Recent reports that the earth may be pear shaped are disquieting. The change in Terra's shape might be invoked as a reason for preparing for Judgement Day, stopping atom bomb tests, or continuing the study of geography at Harvard. As of now there are no plans to replace the visiting professor of geography, Henry C. Darby, when he leaves; the Administration claims among other reasons for this, the difficulty of finding men in the field who are up to the University's standards of scholarship...
...flattened sphere, its flatness at the poles resulting from plastic response to its spinning motion. Last week Dr. John A. O'Keefe, assistant director of the Theoretical Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, gave evidence before the American Physical Society that the earth is very slightly pear shaped. If its continents are evened out and its spin-flattening allowed for, it has a faint bulge around the North Pole, a faint depression around the South Pole, and a depressed ring in the north mid-latitudes (see diagram...
...mute or not, they expected it to streak into a solar orbit Wednesday or Thursday on a pear-shaped course that possibly--barely possible--might one day swing it back to earth...
Happily home in Athens after two months of successful junketeering in the U.S.. where she handled everything from White House luncheons and atomic-science briefings to roadside snacks, e.g., a prickly-pear cactus malted at the Grand Canyon, lively Queen Frederika of Greece graciously turned the other cheek for a warming buss from King Paul, who stayed put to mind the palace...
...demolishing them; I felt demolished too, and would order more. "Garcon," I would say to the diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them the stench of the cages...of Harvard. Of Cambridge, that book-lined, brick-paved...