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Five tuxedoed Lowell House tutors, armed with the proper optical equipment and spirits, met on Weeks Bridge at the wee hours of the morning yesterday to toast the coming of Sputnik.
After a short wait they spotted the rocket arcing over the horizon at 6:09 a.m., and hailed it with hearty shouts of "Skoal" accompanied by numerous toasts. After the object had disappeared, the tutors returned to calculate the results of their observations. Some of the party, however, were unable to compute with any exactness.
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