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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master of the yet to be built eighth House denied a series of charges that the new structure would look like a "large apartment building" and have a front resembling "a checkered calico print," yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bullitt Denies Charges Against Eighth House | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

...months after Harvard's donation, the General Court of Massachusetts proclaimed "that the colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Cities Celebrate John Harvard's Baptism | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

ACROSS the North American continent from the edge of the polar icecap to the Mexican border lies a vast and wondrously intricate system of aerial defenses. Built over a period of nine years at a cost of more than $18 billion, based upon radar networks within networks electronically tied to the most modern systems of detection and interception (see color pages), it was never considered foolproof against penetration. A defense in depth, it was designed to-and will-limit to a minimum the breakthroughs of Soviet long-range bombers coming to pour nuclear destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NORAD: DEFENSE OF A CONTINENT | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...extensions far out to sea, maintained by relays of radar-equipped Navy destroyer escorts and WV2 Super Constellations. These mid-ocean lines stretch from the Aleutians to the mid-Pacific and from Newfoundland to the mid-Atlantic. Backing them up will be chains of underwater "listening" lines, now being built parallel to the coasts, to detect and intercept missile-launching submarines several hundred miles out at sea. In addition, a ground DEW line extension is also under construction across the arc of the Aleutian Islands; other holes are plugged by the Alaskan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NORAD: DEFENSE OF A CONTINENT | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Safety First. The high cost of Shippingport is due greatly to the need to test several versions of similar equipment to find out which is best for commercial power production. But for the AEC and dozens of private subcontractors that built it, Shippingport will provide the first really thorough investigation of nuclear plant safety-the main drawback so far to production for profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: A Baby Is Born | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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