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...Colonial and early Republican period. Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Copley, and Sargent and landscapes of the Hudson River School are in this great collection. And just off Storrow Drive is the Museum of Science, which combines natural history, science, history, and public health; it also has a planetarium...
...Science Pavilion, one show takes visitors, via the world's largest projection screen (spread over a planetarium-like dome), billions of light-years into inter-galactic space and back, in a zooming journey through the stars and past flaming nebulae. Handrails support those dizzied by a flip around Saturn. Admits one fair official: "We might have to provide airsickness bags...
Arizona Refuge. The orgy of superstition was not peculiar to Asia. Even sophisticated New York had its worriers, some of whom called the Hayden Planetarium for reassurance. In Southern California, western capital of cockeyed cults, local astrologers did their best business in years. Like their Indian colleagues, they predicted natural and unnatural disasters. One woman repaired to a vacant lot and pitched a tent furnished with a time capsule containing, among other necessities, a ten-dollar bill. A group from Santa Cruz fled to the Arizona mountain hamlet of Cleator, sure they had chosen one of the twelve places...
Another great exhibit is currently at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln which can be seen until July 2. The exhibit covers twentieth-century portraiture. The Museum of Science combines natural history, science, history, and public health, and includes a planetarium...
After surveying the planetarium and bell tower he gave to the University of North Carolina, Multimillionaire Alumnus John Motley Morehead, 90, turned his attention to another of his campus contributions: the school's 135 Morehead Scholars. Mustering those about to graduate-each of whom had enjoyed a four-year, $5,000 grant-Union Carbide Engineering Consultant Morehead (who still commutes frequently to the company's Manhattan headquarters from suburban Rye) treated them to a brief bit of his practical philosophy: "Money doesn't bring happiness, but it helps to quiet the nerves...