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EXHIBIT: "Invisible Light: Infrared Photography--A Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit"; B.U. Gallery; opens Saturday...
...average weekday, about 4000 people dial 495-1000 (the University's general number), 495-5000 (student information), 495-6000 (Business School information), 495-7000 (the Harvard and Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory), and 495-8000 (Radcliffe information), all of which connect to the operators' office. Each operator sits in front of a long bank of flashing lights and colored buttons, wearing a clip-on earphone and a near-invisible, transparent, cable mouthpiece that keeps her hands free. When a call comes in, the console emits a faint beep and the operator answers it with the press of a button...
...about the planet Saturn," recalls Sara Chalfen, one of a handful of "casuals"-men and women who work part time to augment the regular staff of 12 operators. "He wanted to know the names of the stars that circle around Saturn. I tried to find him someone at the Smithsonian who would know-I don't know how successful...
Cook and Franklin, who have joint research appointments with the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, have been...
...social life was sharply impaired by increasing deafness. At 74, he brought his renewed collection of some 600 items to the U.S., where it got small attention. But the Smithsonian invited him to display them and, as a bonus, allowed him to live in a small tower room. Within a year, Catlin fell seriously ill and, at 76, died. Congress had still refused to buy his collection; not until six years after his death was Harrison's heir persuaded to donate it to the Smithsonian...