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...closer cooperation. Earlier in the week, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine had publicly voiced the hope "that the juxtaposition of two lunar missions in such a close time frame points out the desirability of close cooperation in space between the Soviet Union and the United States." During his recent tour of Russia, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman called for wider exchanges of scientific information and the joint tracking of satellites. He advocated a halt to "unnecessary duplication" in planetary exploration and suggested that when orbiting laboratories are lofted into space, they be manned with scientists from a number of different countries...
Harvard Summer School trip to Cape Cod will leave at 9:30 a.m. on July 26. The trip will include a tour of Plymouth, swimming and dinner in Hyannis Port, and a performance of MAME at the cape Cape Cod Melody Tent. Tickets an information in Matthews Hall 4; or phone 868-7600, ext. 2945. Deadline for buying tickets is Thursday, July...
None of the dead fish have as yet floated down to the portion of the Charles adjacent to Harvard. After finishing a tour of those banks yesterday afternoon, and observer said, "Believe me, dead fish would be the most pleasant thing there. I saw dead rates, old sanitary napkins, and everything else but dead fish...
...Alfeld, Germany. Unlike most buildings of the time, which were held up by thick exterior walls, the structure was supported by Bessemer steel interior columns and beams and faced with a breathtakingly thin curtain of glass. It was bold, light, airy-an immediate landmark. Soon after, Gropius produced another tour de force: a machine factory in Cologne whose facade was dominated by a pair of glass-sheathed spiral staircases that looked as cold and tense as ice around a coiled spring...
...Line. That the doom was a long time coming-more than 250 years-may be credited in part to the tactical genius of another, greater emperor. Hadrian had been ruling barely five years when, in A.D. 122, a frontier tour brought him to the site of the wall. He evolved (personally, according to Divine) a radical new defense plan that helped in part to lend his name to the wall. Previously, Roman soldiers had been stationed in fortlets behind the barrier; from these they were ready to be rushed to threatened segments whenever an attack was mounted. Hadrian added cavalry...