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Astronomers are not building many ordinary optical telescopes these days, but electronic telescopes for catching radio waves from space are under construction in many countries. One of their advantages: they need not be built on clear-aired deserts or mountaintops. They can see the sky through the thickest clouds or even the smoky glare of Pittsburgh or Los Angeles...
Nearly twenty inches of snow lashed the Northeast last night leaving the area buried under one of thickest March drifts in history. In Cambridge, Harvard and Radcliffe were almost completely paralized by the total accumulation of over two feet which fell during the past three days...
...riding a handy, sure-footed grey Arab polo pony. We wheeled and began to gallop . . . Bright flags appeared as if by magic, and I saw arriving from nowhere Emirs on horseback . . . The Dervishes appeared to be ten or twelve deep at the thickest, a great grey mass gleaming with steel. They seemed to be wild with excitement, dancing about on their feet, shaking their spears up and down . . . I found myself surrounded. I fired . . . Three or four men from my troop were missing . . . Trumpets were sounded . . . Two squadrons were dismounted and in a few minutes their fire . . . compelled the Dervishes...
...Harlem, one thing that most impressed the Russians was the lavishness of U.S. newspapers and magazines. Apparently recalling the skimpy Moscow papers, Polevoy marveled that Americans in a single week can turn out "magazines as thick as mattresses." (Jolly Journalist Sofronov was introduced on one occasion as "the thickest editor of a thin magazine in Russia...
...maze of charitable trusts which owned some of Textron's property, and that through them, he had pocketed profits that should actually have gone to Textron. Little settled the suit by paying $600,000 back to Textron. A year ago, he lowered his head at the thickest stone wall of his career: he started a fight to 1) take over money-losing American Woolen Co., the largest U.S. maker of woolens and worsteds, and 2) merge it with Textron...