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...miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...slow-steady forward movement of the week was this: in Washington, London, Bonn and Paris, diplomats concerned were now convinced that a Foreign Ministers' conference will be held, probably in Geneva, and that it will begin, if Russia agrees, on May 11. It might last several months, and take up the whole German question ("Agenda isn't important," said one top Briton. "Once people get together, they usually discuss anything they want to"). It would probably fail...
...applicant may increase his chances of admission to the House of his first choice by attending House consultation hours, which begin Monday, avoiding applications in groups of more than eight, and by listing specific reasons for requesting assignment to a particular House: a tutor or adviser, or special friends or relatives in the House...
Construction on a $300,000 research laboratory for the Forsyth Children's Dental Clinic will probably begin next month, Director John B. Macdonald announced yesterday. Staff members of the Clinic serve on the Faculty of the School of Dental Medicine, and the two organizations cooperate in research and training...
...Things begin to look up considerably in the second of the play's three acts, however, when a young lady named Frances West makes her appearance. Having broken her leg during a performance of Six Characters, she is currently appearing in a wheelchair, but her scenes have been smoothly reblocked to accommodate her. Her Cecily has the proper air of bland but strong-minded ingenuousness; her accent is perfect, and if her voice did not sometimes become unnecessarily shrill, she would be thoroughly splendid...