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...Society's textbook buyer, a most competent young man, admits that he came in on the tail end of Mrs. Lessinger's conversation with the clerk at the counter and is very red-faced over the incident. After going back to his desk he refigured the price of the book in question and found he had made a mathematical error and multiplied by 80 per cent rather than 70 per cent. He admits he should have checked his figures while she was still in the store. Shortly after she left the book in question was remarked at its properly scheduled...
After sunset on Oct. 20, a strange and luminous object will rise above the western horizon and make a broad sweep across the darkening sky. Beginning as a fuzzy smear of light, it is expected to grow brighter and brighter until its 20 million-mile tail stretches put to look like a new Milky Way; then its head will appear with a light as great as the full moon. As the newly discovered Ikeya-Seki comet makes its rendezvous with the sun, it will curve high above the northern sky in one of the most spectacular celestial shows...
...been moving toward the sun at the rate of about 2° a day. It will reach perihelion (closest point to the sun) shortly after midnight (E.D.T.) on Oct. 21; during hours of darkness, it may be visible to the naked eye. Though the comet's tail will show up most clearly on the West Coast, Easterners may also be able to see it during the night. Then, shortly before dawn on the East Coast, the head of the comet should appear above the eastern horizon and may remain visible even after sunrise...
...house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...
...from Durban clattered toward suburban Effingham Junction Station. The cars carried 1,200 blacks returning from their jobs in the city to crowded Kwa Mashu, the native "location" ten miles away. Suddenly, reported an observer, "as I looked along the track, I saw the electric unit at the tail end topple over." With it came the train's last passenger compartment, bouncing like a toy over the jagged fill of the roadbed...