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Goodbye Backyards. Manry had dreamed of sailing the Atlantic ever since he first heard about open-ocean sailing as a small boy in India, where his father was a Presbyterian missionary. He bought the 36-year-old Tinker-belle six years ago for $250, completely rebuilt her, taught himself navigation, and practiced long-distance sailing on Lake Erie. "There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard," he told his wife...
...staff of a laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, has offered to perform experiments for Harvard and M.I.T. scientists while the hall is being rebuilt, Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, told the Summer News yesterday...
...Directions. Penzias and Wilson used an extremely sensitive receiver, part of it cooled by liquid helium to eliminate most of the radio noise that is generated internally by electronic gear. They rebuilt the horn meticulously, cleaned and aligned its joints, covered its seams smoothly with aluminum tape to reduce noise coming from imperfections. They made allowance for radio waves from the earth's atmosphere. After all that, the horn continued to catch a steady radio whisper that did not vary by day or night, winter or summer. It seemed to come from all directions with equal intensity...
...eyed, wavy-haired Celibidache has been bucking musical conventions since 1933, when he defied parental opposition and fled his native Rumania to study music in Paris and later, during the war years, at the University of Berlin. At the end of the war he took over the Berlin Philharmonic, rebuilt it singlehanded into an orchestra of international rank. In 1952, when Wilhelm Furtwangler was denazified and reinstated as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Celibidache drifted off to-pursue his lone-wolf existence...
...steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret's wriggly portrayal of a hick-town temptress requires orchestral accompaniment, their romance tends to slacken whenever the jukebox goes dead. Bus finally readjusts to civilian life by discovering that happiness is a rebuilt carburetor and his kid sister's chum Judy, sensitively played by Janet Margolin (of David and Lisa...