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...brick U.S. Pavilion, which resembles a miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...
...press secretary, gyrating halfway down on his knees, doing the watusi. The Reverend Moyers is another of those twinkle toes that inhabit the White House." At that, Baptist Bill Moyers, 31, inhibited himself into the depths of the West Wing and refused any comment on his performance at the Smithsonian Institution bene fit ball. White House Adviser Bob Kintner just burbled: "No matter what dance Bill does, it always comes out looking like a square dance anyhow...
...giant 84-foot radio dish going into operation this summer at the Harvard College Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will triple the station's power to gather radio waves from distant parts of the universe...
McCrosky, lecturer on Astronomy, showed the television audience the equipment of the Smithsonian Institute which photographs the sky all night long every night. With cameras that can detect a six inch sphere as far away as the moon, they have never detected "anything we don't understand...
...born on a canal barge, and Jim's "war buddy," Jim Morgan. After a last ride on the trolley line, which is being shut down, these four marry. The trolley line is kept running in miniature in somebody's basement, and subsequently it is sent to the Smithsonian Institution...