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...like Christmas at Splinter Stadium yesterday. The weather would have chilled a polar bear, and Harvard's baseball team played Santa Claus with a bag of gifts that included five errors. When the festivities were over, Boston College found itself in possession of a 9-6 victory...
...oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue." To improve the British climate, he suggested that the navies of the nations of the Northern Hemisphere band together to push the ice masses of the polar regions into the southern oceans. He was the founder of the famed Lunar Society, consisting of a group of scientific eccentrics whose habit of meeting by the light of the full moon, reputedly so that they could see their way home after dinner, eventually gave rise to their well-earned...
...birth, it was tucked inside a small canister perched atop a Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
Floating Shelf. Unlike the northern polar region, which is ocean covered with ice, the area around the South Pole is a large land mass above which a thick icecap can form. During relatively nonglaciated periods such as the present, Dr. Wilson calculates, ice builds up on Antarctica, and the southern icecap reaches higher and higher. The top of the ice remains very cold, but the bot om is warmed slightly by heat escaping from the interior of the earth. Finally, the combined effect of pressure from the thickening cap and geothermal warming below melts the ice at the bottom. This...
June is for brides and December for polar bears. But the couple had already been waiting for three years because everybody thought they were too young. So the wind blew, the temperature dropped to 23°, and Actor Brandon de Wilde, 21, who played in The Member of the Wedding at seven, and Manhattan Deb Susan Margot Maw, 18, got married anyway. Then they headed south for a warming honeymoon, which meant that Susan was leaving her studies at Bryn Mawr, to say nothing of the holiday ball at which she was scheduled to debut...