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...Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in conjunction with NASA, has begun developing an approximately $1 billion space satellite telescope--one of the nation's most significant space projects in this decade...
Other museums in the nation are bigger and richer the two most notable being the Smithsonian and New York's Museum of Natural History in New York. The Smithsonian, for example, is expanding at a rate of almost one million specimens a year and receives substantial funding subsidies fron the federal government. But for a University museum. Harvard has one of the most diverse and largest collections...
...Sierra Club was a pioneer in marketing richly illustrated calendars as wall and desk adornments. The organization expects to sell about 400,000 copies of its 1984 engagement book, which has pictures of natural vistas. Price: $7.95. Seeing the promotional value and fund-raising possibilities, other institutions, including the Smithsonian and the New York Public Library, have weighed in with artful books...
...Smithsonian Institution is the repository of national memory. In the celebrated Air and Space Museum, the frail craft that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., hovers near the command module of Apollo 11, which first put man on the moon. In the Museum of American History are the portable desk that Thomas Jefferson designed and then used while writing the Declaration of Independence, the original Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand...
...installed at Madame Tussaud's in London at the end of December. Science-fiction buffs discussed the father of Big Brother in Antwerp this fall. Futurists look forward to gathering for the same purpose in Washington next June, well after the separate Orwell festivities planned by the Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress. By then hearings scheduled by a House Judiciary subcommittee on "1984: Civil Liberties and the National Security State" will be completed...