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January 1, 1970
rocket
Clark Bell photo

Cold-war dud? What is this "Soviet missile" on campus? Who was behind it and why? Email us your answers, and watch for a summary of results in a future Scope Monthly.

Locker room

From last time: Locker-room couture?
Scope Monthly readers were stumped by this photo featuring Skidmore students. It was part of a multipage spread in the August 25, 1947, issue of Life magazine.
To showcase the year's Victorian-era-inspired fashions, Life's editors had them photographed in the ever-so-Victorian Saratoga Springs. For this setup, they used Skidmore students as models in the locker room of a campus biology lab.

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