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Although Harvard and Smithsonian astronomers share a complex near the Radcliffe Quad--the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)--Cambridge's cloudy skies force them to go elsewhere to observe the stars...
Whitney told the audience at the reunion, whichwas held at the Harvard Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics, that although he began teachingAstronomy 2 this semester, Wright "still comes toall the classes...
Many people are unaware of the fact that among a once-nomadic group of endangered East Africans called the lk (described in The Mountain People by anthropologist Colin Turnbull). dark black skin and deep-blue eyes are commonplace, as reference to color photographs in an early 1970's Smithsonian magazine will readily confirm...
...Comics rented part of Manhattan's Puck Building to throw a big party; several thousand fans came to watch favorite film clips, buy balloons and nibble on birthday cake. The observances will continue throughout the year, starting with the anniversary of Action Comics next month. The Smithsonian's exhibition of Supermanobilia will run until June in Washington. In Metropolis, Ill., they are refurbishing for summer visitors the large statue that proclaims the dubious proposition that this is "Superman's hometown." And in Cleveland, which really is Superman's hometown, a booster club that calls itself the Neverending Battle is planning...
...years he has gone from struggling craftsman to an artist whose crystal-encased wild flowers are in demand by collectors around the world and represented in museums from the Smithsonian Institution to London's Victoria and Albert. Dwight P. Lanmon, director of the Corning Museum of Glass, which also collects his work, sees in Stankard's flowers a spontaneity and freshness that "capture the quality of living plants...