Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science fiction. Storm-spotting sensors and the micrometeorological predictions of an orbiting weatherman are well within the reach of today's technology, giving man for the first time in his history the tools at least to tame, if not to conquer, the weather. Weather research has experienced a breakthrough in the past few years, and scientists around the world are rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages of hard, scientific...
What will come of it all? Europeans sense a major breakthrough in the offing, one that will eventually result in freer movement and new alignments, a Europe that despite proliferating nationalism could, for the first time since 1939, become one continent again. No one was ready to predict when the new Europe will come. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 75, arriving in Moscow to rebuild the "proud tower" of European nationalism from the Atlantic to the Urals, was doing what he could to quicken the pace...
...first major breakthrough in the long policy of opposition to coeducation came during World War II, when the two schools recognized the inefficiency of this system. Whether there was an unspoken agreement to resume segregated education after the War is unclear. The girls had moved into Harvard yard for good. Still the myth of separate schools persisted. Agassiz had been the center of Radcliffe college life, providing meeting places for Radcliffe's Debating, English, Liberal, Music and Poetry Clubs. The Idler Club performed its plays there. In addition, Radcliffe boasted its own newspaper, The Radcliffe News, and a yearbook...
Until 1951 Kahn had built little of importance. Then, while teaching at Yale, he designed that university's new art museum, which with its diagonal staircase slung in a concrete drum and waffle ceilings was hailed as a breakthrough in highly articulated construction. His medical-research laboratories building, finished in 1961 at the University of Pennsylvania, is the first major expression of his concept of "servant" and "served" spaces, achieved by isolating mechanical elements and air ducts in strong vertical towers, then hanging glass racks for laboratories between them...
...Harvard freshman has made an important breakthrough in the use of computers for map-making, and 50 experts in the field attended a seminar in the Faculty Club yesterday to hear his report...