Stars beamed down at the hundreds of scientists who milled into Des Moines' Shrine Temple for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. The stars were in the building's domed ceiling, marked there by the resident host of the convention, President Daniel Walter Morehouse of Drake University, 53, famed astronomer, discoverer of the Morehouse comet. There is a story at Drake that when the ceiling was first completed and the lights turned on, Dr. Morehouse scanned the celestial charade, pointed to one bright speck among the...
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