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...command and control most military satellite missions and space shuttle flights, jobs that are currently performed at the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to the Air Force, the first phase of construction (a subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC to begin taking charge of satellite missions. By the 1990s ground control for military shuttles would shift from Houston to CSOC...
...Dwight; in Baltimore. The youngest of seven brothers, Milton worked for the Agriculture Department through the Depression years; during World War II he was a top Roosevelt troubleshooter for refugee and relief problems in North Africa, before leaving Government in 1943. He then held three college presidencies: at his alma mater, Kansas State, until 1950; at Pennsylvania State (1950-56); and at Johns Hopkins (1956-67 and 1971-72). The genial, judicious administrator also held several part-time Government posts, among them Special Ambassador to Latin America and membership on twelve major Government commissions. He chaired five of them, notably...
...LAST TIME Erich Segal '58 got the urge to write at length about his alma mater, he produced Love Story, and Freshman Week hasn't been the same since...
...former North House resident said that the decision to return to his alma mater, where he was also a graduate student, "was based on a number of complex factors," but he declined to elaborate on details of the decision...
...didn't think we had a reasonable chance of winning an appeal, we would be spending this much money on lawyer," said Alma Inner, an ADI spokesperson. "We will do what we have to do because of our contractual obligations and concern for public good," she added...