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...battle was over?and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...
...microscopic examination of photographic plates exposed on successive nights revealed a short, faint trail of light between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus; the object that made it appeared to be moving in relation to the stars that formed the background. Kowal promptly called Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., for help in verifying his discovery. Marsden, who serves as a clearinghouse for reports of astronomical discoveries, passed the news to Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona. Checking plates made a week before Kowal's shots, Gehrels spotted the mysterious light trail...
...Walter C. Sturtevant, who is also a curator at the Smithsonian Institute, corroborated the testimony of two earlier witnesses, saying the Mashpee tribe fulfills five criteria for tribal status, Ann Gillmore, an associate attorney representing the Indians, said yesterday...
Brian G. Marsden, professor of Astronomy and researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said a reference in yesterday's New York Times to "Object-Kowal" as a possible tenth planet was "nonsense...
DIED. Geoffrey T. Hellman, 70, prolific New Yorker staff writer for close to half a century; of cancer; in Manhattan. Hellman's contributions to "Talk of the Town," his acerbic profiles of such legendary characters as Alfred Knopf, and his portraits of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History ("Bankers, Bones, and Beetles") are masterpieces of New Yorker prose...