Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South African station was set up in the twenties, when the Boyden station was moved there from Arequipa, Peru. It offered prime opportunities for photographing the Southern skies, and had a 60-inch reflecting telescope. It was hoped that a definitive photographic catalog of Southern skies could be made there...
Ewen, and Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, are the co-directors of the Radio Astronomy Program. Bok signalizes the Bloemfontein effect in that he took up radio astronomy seriously when the University gave up the South African installation. He has since attained world stature in the field, and is one of the key planners of the projected National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Ewen, through his firm, the Ewen-Knight Corporation, has developed the electronic apparatus of the telescopes...
...your job now." With that mandate Norstad became the Air Forces' hottest young planner, helped map the air-war plan that placed emphasis first on the European theater, then on the Pacific. He was air-operations officer for the Twelfth Air Force under Jimmy Doolittle in the North African campaign. Of his service in North Africa, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote: "[He] so impressed me with his alertness, grasp of problems, and personality that I never thereafter lost sight of him." In 1944 he became Arnold's chief of staff in the Twentieth Air Force, helped direct...
Another artist following course exercises is Gil Cautrecasas, '57. His copy of an African head is a rather high class doodle. In a pencil study of a nude torso, Cautrecasas is fairly skillful at describing the feminine anatomy, but his graphic treatment is thoroughly unimaginative...
Died. Manilal Mohandas Gandhi, 63, son of the late great Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, and editor of the South African weekly, Indian Opinion, after long illness; in Phoenix, Natal. Taken to South Africa as a child, Manilal Gandhi adopted his father's methods for his lone passive resistance struggle against the government's apartheid policy, helped focus world attention on South Africa by his deliberate lawbreaking, jail terms and fasts...