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...most likely to be forgotten as the pilot of the Apollo 11 mother ship that circled the moon while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to take an extraterrestrial walk. Now a brigadier general (U.S. Air Force, ret.), Collins is director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which will soon house flying relics from the earliest balloons through Skylab...
...miles southwest of the Azores, had penetrated 1,910 ft. into the earth's hard crust under the Atlantic bottom sediment. It returned core samples from depths never before explored; the previous record penetration was 260 ft. into the submarine crustal rock. Said Geochemist William Melson of the Smithsonian Institution: "It was like probing into the unknown, getting samples we had thought about for years but had never been able to reach...
...Superskater, which he hopes to sell to a country-music producer. He may not get a golden record, but he is already assured of some distinction. He is a cinch to make his second entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, and will donate his skates to the Smithsonian for exhibition in Washington...
Experts have presented quite a few arguments against the film's authenticity, but have not been able to flatly discount it. John R. Napier, then director of the primate biology program at the Smithsonian Institution, examined the film some 30 times and wrote Patterson in May 1968, "There was nothing I could see that could conclusively indicate a hoax." In his 1973 book, Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, Napier explained his having told Argosy magazine not to dismiss the film. "In effect," he wrote, "what I meant was that I could not see the zipper...
That allows Smithsonian to cast a wide editorial net. It reports on the natural and physical sciences, fine and folk arts. It also recounts history that Thompson finds "relevant to today." The magazine sometimes seems a cross between American Heritage and the National Geographic, but its articles also frequently appear more topical and better written. Occasionally Thompson runs a piece that borders on the banal; last month's attempt to describe life astride an earthquake fault in California was conveyed in words and pictures as wooden as the fatalism of the town's residents. By contrast, a report...