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...years scholars have known about this dating system, but tracing astronomical motions backward for more than 2,000 years is forbiddingly time consuming for slow-working human brains. So Mathematician Bryant Tuckerman of IBM got time on a 704 computer. In 40 hours of electronic calculation the 704 riffled through reams of arithmetic and disgorged 301 tables of figures showing the positions of the moon, Venus and Mercury at five-day intervals, and of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the sun at ten-day intervals between 601 B.C. to A.D. Ι. The orbital equations used by the monster computer gave results...
Scholars who can read the cuneiform writing of ancient Babylon are already hard at work with Dr. Tuckerman's tables. Eventually they may check the dates of such events as Nebuchadnezzar's deportation of the Jews or Cyrus' capture of Babylon-sometimes, perhaps, to the very hour, Babylon Standard Time. They hope to reconstruct a detailed history of the almost forgotten Babylonian civilization, out of which grew the culture of Greece and modern Europe...
Work has begun in earnest on the Harvard Mountaineering Club's new is in Tuckerman Ravine on Mt. Washington. The cabin, which will replace the rather delapidated Boot Spur cabin club now operates, is expected to be shed in time for climbing activities next year...
More than 60 Harvard ski bugs are expected to make the trek this morning to Tuckerman's Ravine on the Mt. Washington slopes, New Hampshire, for the annual Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom...
Coach Bruce Munro said yesterday that the encounter should give the varsity a chance to perfect its offense. The Crimson's attack so far this season has been unpolished but effective, and the loss of Roger Tuckerman, last season's star center forward, already seems less of a calamity than was originally feared...