Word: 5a
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Enrollment in Chemistry 5a, formerly Natural Sciences 3, fell to 347 from last year's 360. Roy G. Gordon, professor of Chemistry, said yesterday he has revised the course, gearing it more towards possible concentrators than the original "catch-all" General Education course...
1Social Analysis10 1071 2Natural Sciences 110 773 3Chemistry 20a 432 4Astronomy 8 422 5Mathematics 1a 410 6Fine Arts 13 386 7Chemistry 5a 347 8Folklore and Mythology 107 339 9Literature and Arts C-16 318 10Science...
...atoll. Five years later, U.S. Navy Seabee teams began construction on Diego Garcia. It now has a complete airfield with a 12,000-ft. runway that can accommodate everything from the four-engine P-3 Orion patrol planes that fly submarine tracking missions from Diego to the huge C-5A and C-141 jet transports that land to drop supplies and refuel. The base also has permanent barracks for 820 troops, a large storage complex and a harbor that has been dredged deep enough (45 ft.) to accommodate the Navy's largest aircraft carriers (the U.S.S. Eisenhower and Constellation...
Heady with the euphoria of the early jet age in the 1960s and expecting one or more big Government contracts like the C-5A transport plane, the TFX fighter aircraft or the SST supersonic, Boeing grew fat and sloppy. Seattle's nickname for the firm was particularly apt: "The Lazy B." The company plunged ahead anyway and kept turning out short-haul 737 and 747 jumbos amid bottlenecks and shortages. Then the market collapsed due to the 1969 recession and earnings slumped, from $83 million in 1968 to $10 million the following year. Boeing in the late 1960s...