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Intense nocturnal activity at the University Observatory is expected tonight and throughout the early part of the week as the star gazers train their telescopes skyward for an aerial fireworks show of thousands of meteors, calculated to make their debut in the Boston sector of earth's atmosphere at 10 o'clock Wednesday...
Japan too celebrated the harvest moon with a "Moon Viewing Festival." Millions of Japanese came out to gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in Japanese tradition the moon also symbolizes homesickness. Outside the cream-colored Russian Embassy in Tokyo, 3,000 men & women, mostly elderly farmers, marched slowly back & forth, bowing as they passed the big iron gate. In their hands were small white banners decorated with moons. One banner was inscribed: "Oh moon, tell me where...
Atop the white-capped Swiss Alps, giant fires blazed skyward. While church bells tolled and golden-tailed rockets sped through the night, gaily lighted boats, like graceful waltzers on a vast mirror, drifted across the Lake of Zurich. This Aug. 1, 655 years had passed into history since the day in 1291 when peasants of the old cantons first learned from signal fires on the peaks that Habsburg rule had ended. This year as always, nearly all the day's eloquent oratory, in big cities or small hamlets, ended with the sentence from Schiller's William Tell...
...June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame. Today's goods-hungry consumers could snap up total 1941 production in a month, leaving thousands unsatisfied. All-out bidding would begin, and-before production could catch demand-prices, costs, and wages would be climbing skyward in a grand spiral. The clause guaranteeing a "reasonable profit" to producers, processors, distributors, and retailers is ludicrous; most have been making more than a reasonable profit for months. If price ceilings work a special hardship on a manufacturer, the individual case should be corrected; all ceilings should not be eliminated...
...dollars' worth of equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...