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...ground: "When the space age began, it seemed that no one was prepared to interpret the developments for a general audience. The scientists used incomprehensible jargon, and a typical reporter's question was 'How in the world does that satellite stay up there?' " Since then, Syd observes, "newsmen have acquainted themselves with orbital mechanics, and the scientists have finally learned to speak English...
IRVING AND ME, by Syd Hoff (Harper & Row; $3.95). The adventures and mishaps that befall a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy when he moves to Florida. A good-humored novel by one of The New Yorker's cartoonists...
Paul Ba'muth '69, Syd Lieberman '66, and Clayton Koelb '65 will read selections from their own works at 7 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...
After a month of occasional running in the U.S., Australia's shaggy-maned Herb Elliott, 22, world's fastest miler (3:54.5), flew back Down Under and got his first haircut since he had left. It cost him 56? for a "back and sides" job in a Syd ney barbershop. Explained economy-minded Elliott: "Why pay $2 in the States for a five-bob haircut...
Double Loan. Syd Albert was attracted to Nelson a year ago by its fat assets. The founding family that controlled the company snapped up his offer to pay $43.50 a share for 97% of Nelson's stock or a total of $4,850,000. To raise most of it, Albert borrowed $4,500,000 from Mas-tan & Co. of New York, pledging his Nelson holdings as collateral. -Then he got Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., a factoring house, to lend $3,600,000 to Nelson. When Heller's agents came to inspect the Nelson plant...