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Project 99. While OEA can do an effective job in small arenas, it cannot make a significant dent in such massive dislocations as the shift of defense contracts from the Midwest to the West. In search of ways to help smooth out the bigger economic bumps, McNamara ordered a study of the factors that account for the heavy concentration of Pentagon research and development contracts in a few university-rich areas-such as the Boston region, drawing upon Harvard and M.I.T., and the Southern California complex, centering around Caltech and U.C.L.A. Assigned to the Stanford Research Institute, the study...
...which at last supplied paying students (current tuition: $1,250), and lavish fund-raising by Cardinal Gushing. At war's end, B.C. had eight lonely Gothic buildings; now it has 31 (and plans nine more), including the Joseph P. Kennedy School of Education and an indoor hockey rink bigger than Boston Garden. To shed its commuter image, it is rapidly raising dormitories that now house 2,000 students from 37 states...
Electric typewriters are steadily taking a bigger share of the typewriter market, but none of them can match the unusual trick of the new Smith-Corona portable, introduced last week; it can keep right on typing after its cord is pulled out of the socket. The source of its cordless energy is a compact, efficient power supply that has excited the inventive brain of U.S. industry: the nickel-cadmium battery. This versatile product can be recharged in an ordinary electric socket, can be made tiny enough to power a hearing aid, and is good for a total life of three...
...general manager for another four years, giving him 17 seasons at the Met, a tenure second only to that of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Italian-born maestro who ruled from 1908 to 1935. "I thought it was a big job when I came, and it has grown even bigger," said Bing, looking forward to the Met's 1965 move into sumptuous new quarters in Lincoln Center: "It's going to be beautiful, absolutely beautiful, and acoustically perfect. These next few years are going to be unbelievably busy for everyone-if we all live through them...
Putting on Weight. With European small cars getting bigger and U.S. compacts de-compacting, the big cars seem to have nothing to do but put on weight too. The luxurious French Facel-Vega, for instance, has added a four-door model (both side doors open dramatically away from each other without a center post) that lacks the sprung elegance of the smaller two-door style. Even Rolls-Royce boasts that the new Silver Cloud III (with its four Detroit-style headlights) is roomier than ever...