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...from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz 10 x 40-B Trinovid field glasses, Bausch & Lomb or Questar spotting scope and a Sony TCM-5000 tape recorder, especially souped up for birding by Saul Mineroff of Valley Stream...
...cameras is equipped with an eagle-eye Questar lens, can scan the full sweep of a ski run from its aerie on a mountain top. Other miniature cameras are installed in skiers' helmets and on sleds to provide a kind of rumble-seat view of the courses. To coordinate the com plex operations of ABC's crew, which at 250 strong is more than twice the size of the U.S. Olympic team, the network maintains a command post that suggests that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. Day and night, the center dispatches the network's four...
...Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that he bought an $800 Questar telephoto lens in order to photograph them better...
...Zeiss Ikon Contarex with 200-mm. I 4 lens and a modified Questar telescopic lens (equal to a 50-in. telescope); a Hasselblad 500-C with Zeiss 70-mm. lens; a Widelux panoramic camera for photographing horizons; and a 16-mm. movie camera specially built by McDonnell Aircraft...
Although at one point our World section brashly tried to annex the moon as its news territory, the duty of moon watching over the years has, of course, belonged to the Science section and its editor since 1945, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Through his Questar telescope, which he also uses for bird watching, Leonard often observes the moon from his home at Hastings-on-Hudson. Like everyone else, Leonard is excited about the Ranger VII pictures, but sees "a lot of unexplained things in them." As for putting a man on the moon, Leonard doesn't think the U.S. will...
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