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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard '52 will have its first chance to meet Radcliffe '52 from 8 p. m. to midnight Saturday at the 'Cliffe Orientation Dance in Agassiz House and the Radcliffe gym in the Annex Yard. Half a hundred hostesses from upper classes will be scattered around Agassiz and the basketball floor to perform introductions...
Higher & Higher. Most rocket-borne research, said Dr. Van Allen, has been done by V-2s captured in Germany. Up to July 1, 31 of them had been fired at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, "with upper atmospheric equipment as the primary payload." Twenty-one flights were successful, and one of the rockets reached an altitude of 184 kilometers (114 miles). Some of the information gathered was sent back by radio "telemetering." Other rockets blew off their noses, so that the instruments and records in them would hit the earth less violently. Parachutes brought some instruments drifting gently...
Around & Around. The wealth of data brought down by rockets is still being studied, and much of it will not be released soon because of its military importance. But Dr. Van Allen says the surface has hardly been scratched: the upper atmosphere is a fascinating physics laboratory where violent experiments are being performed every second of the day & night...
...although the river still handles 40% of the country's shipping trade, the traffic is irregular. Two weeks ago, because of the low water, not a steamer moved on the upper river. Such delays, by stretching out trips, cut deep into the profits of the Magdalena companies...
Kittens & Kangaroos. The callers who flock to Grandma Moses' upper New York State farm at Eagle Bridge (there were 500 of them last summer) might seem a chore to someone else, but Grandma loves having them. She also enjoys showing off the snapshots they sometimes leave with her. "Now this," she will remark, "was a very nice family from Ohio . . . This poor girl lost her kitty just before she came .. . This was a woman all the way from Australia. She brought me a kangaroo skin and a hula skirt...