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Hopes of skiing in this vicinity rose and fell as what appeared to be a substantial snow storm turned into rain and the two inches that had fallen melted rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...
...brought 21 pieces of luggage including two gramophones, six pairs of skis. Their Royal Highnesses publicly drank whiskey & soda at teatime, insisted on Polish dishes (item: hare in cream with beets) in the dining room. While Bridegroom Bernhard ski-jored behind a sleigh, Bride Juliana skied on a practice slope before a trainer and 47 cameramen, good-naturedly taking frequent spills and crying the only two Polish words she had learned: "Don't photograph!" Considering how ably the world press can hound romantic couples when it wants to, world press applause this week for the autocratic, aristocratic Dutch...
This New Hampshire town offers very good open slope skiing and practice slopes with a ski tow. Norwood Cox, Coop ski expert, is here to give instruction. Close to Cambridge, it can be reached either by auto or train...
...child under one arm, picked him up bodily. "This is better than money," he said as he backed from the room toward the French doors. When Billy and the two girls ran to the shattered doors, they saw the man fleeing across the soggy rear lawn and down the slope toward Commencement Bay, with Charles held tightly under his arm. In the litter of broken glass at their feet they picked up this crude pocket-worn note that appeared to have been printed on a child's toy printing...
...Harvard Observatory, pointed out that conclusions as to the size of the particles in this red nebula could be drawn from its color. If the nebular material were microscopically fine, the light of Antares would be reddened, just as the sun is reddened when it shines through a long slope of the hazy atmosphere at evening. Also, the light from the nebula would be made bluer by selective scattering of the same kind which makes the earth's sky blue.* Actually, the color of the star and that of the nebula are almost identical. Therefore the nebular fragments must...