Word: calling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lanky Neil McElroy eased through a cluster of photographers in the White House conference room and shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
...Plans call for launching two experimental meteorological satellites containing cloud-scanning television cameras. The first, weighing 250 pounds, is scheduled for a mid-January launching by an Air Force Thor-Able rocket. The other will be sent up later next year...
...Salute to the American Theater (CBS, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.). Franchot Tone introduces scenes from Broadway shows- Waiting for Lefty, Inside U.S.A., South Pacific, Call Me Mister, Watch on the Rhine, There Shall Be No Night, West Side Story, Raisin in the Sun-to demonstrate "the American theater's continuing fight against bigotry." With Phyllis Newman, Eli Wallach, Tom Poston, William Shatner, Bill Tabbert...
...Drawings call for a 40,000 square foot "F"-shaped structure with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
Three times a year, the CRIMSON decides that it might be wise to acquire what other organizations call "new blood," and so out of need as much as out of kindness, opens its doors to prospective donors. The second competition of the current year--the last chance before next term--will begin with open house at 14 Plympton Street tonight and tomorrow night...