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Harvard architectural policy is dismaying to many, but especially to those long associated with the Central Cambridge Fire House, lying between Memorial Hall and the Yard. This fire house was built in 1934 to match the brick ivy-covered buildings of Harvard. The Department took pride in having the most collegiate-looking fire house in the country. This effort and expense proved to be in vain, however, when in 1951 the University erected glassy, cinder-blocked Burr Hall across the street...
Green reported that "a member of the Administration told us Monday afternoon that he would just as soon see drama at Harvard discontinued until the new theatre is built." Another member of the HDC Executive Board lamented what he called the University's anti-theatre policy," as manifested in its unwillingness to create a faculty drama department and its refusal actively to support...
...aided by state departments, the commission has zealously uncovered prospects, wooed them with hard facts and friendly talk and dinners at Winrock or the governor's mansion. Many a wavering industrialist has been won over by personal visits from Rockefeller, e.g., Akron's Mohawk Rubber, which built a $2,000,000 plant after a little personal persuasion...
...industry. The result has had a startling impact on the state's economy. The sleepy little town of Searcy in central Arkansas, which once lived off strawberries and cotton, has already been transformed by the prospect of four new plants worth nearly $5,000,000 (two already built), and its population has doubled to 7,000. In 1956 alone, 12,521 new jobs were created in Arkansas, 194 industries either brought into the state or expanded during the year, $130 million laid out in capital investment. The state's per-capita income went...
Africa's primitive past and its hopeful future met this week on a rapids-swept island in the teeming jungles of the French Cameroons. There the continent's first aluminum smelting plant-a $46 million complex covering 32 acres-was officially inaugurated by the French. Built by Pechiney and Ugine, France's two aluminum producers, the new Alucam complex shares the island of Edea in the Sanaga River with a new hydroelectric plant that will supply power for its battery of 208 electrolytic vats. Alucam's yearly capacity, scheduled to reach a peak 50,000 tons...