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Apparently the scenery--including the course, the weather, and the atmosphere--was sublime yesterday at The Country Club in Brookline, the site of the Harvard golf team's confrontation with Brown and Boston College. Sublime enough for Harvard to take the match despite turning in a substellar 412 for five rounds on the par-71 course...
...system uses a blank globe and four drawing instruments to locate positions graphically. The navigator must "shoot the angle" of two stars with a sextant. He marks on his globe the exact substellar spots of these two stars (i.e., the spots where these stars are directly overhead-obtained from star tables). Then he uses these two spots as centers of circles, drawn with the angle measured by sextant. The two circles intersect at two widely distant points; one is the location of the plane. At high speeds and at mind-fogging altitudes the quickness of the method may be literally...
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