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...research rockets to probe the thin upper atmosphere, they generally kiss their instruments goodbye. Few scientific gadgets survive the impact when the spent rocket hits the earth at thousands-of-miles-per-hour speed. Ordinary parachutes are no help because they are generally torn to shreds before they can waft the instruments to earth...
Apathy took a back seat this week as no breeze proved strong enough to waft the well-worn felt of Stu Bottle '50 into the Student Council ring. The somnambulent prexy of the Student Apathy League, aroused from his daily stint on an Eliot House settee, muttered a barely audible "no" when told of his nomination...
...voyage to Tahiti, Heyerdahl estimates, will take about 140 days. The Peru current will carry the balsa northward up the coast. Then the east wind and the "south equatorial current" will waft it across the Pacific. For entertainment while they drift, the Norwegians are taking along a guitar...
Charles River breezes will waft the Yacht Club on its way this Sunday in the first of a series of nine regating which will pit the Club against 32 colleges and universities from throughout the nation...
...Darius Milhaud, climbed carefully into a chair raised a foot above the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall. From the chair he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the first performance of his Symphony No. 2. During tranquil passages he waved his arms gently, as if they would waft him into the air like a weightless blimp. When the music was loud he slid from his chair and stood threateningly on tiptoe...