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Architectural drawings have been completed and bids opened for a million-dollar computation center to be built on Observatory Hill and leased by the University to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Fred L. Whipple, director of the Observatory, confirmed yesterday...
...Hynek, who has been working with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in its Satellite-Tracking Program, was granted a leave of absence from Northwestern until September, 1960 in order to finish his work here...
...Madrid's National Observatory one afternoon last week, a group of U.S. astronomers peered at the sky with astronomers' telescopes that can see planets and stars in bright daylight. Headed by Dr. Allen Hynek of the Smithsonian's Cambridge Astrophysical Observatory, the scientists were in Spain to take full advantage of a rare event. The planet Venus, 55 million miles from the earth in the solar system, was passing directly in front of the bright star Regulus in miniature eclipse, and though the two were 400 trillion miles apart (67 light-years), the star's light...
...apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable. "In the bleak, birds squeak," the Beat One interjects during a soliloquy. This specimen, with its weird vein of Gertrude Stein, should be stuffed, mounted, labeled, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
Tragedy and Snafu. Able will now be stuffed. At the suggestion of Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, she will be exhibited at Independence, her officially claimed birthplace, then moved to a permanent showplace in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...