Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleared for takeoff." Soon after the jet leaves the ground, another technician in the station, known as departure control, picks up the jet on radar and guides it out of the general area of the airport. Next, a controller in one of the 20 air-route traffic control centers that blanket the country takes over responsibility, monitors the jet through his section of the sky, and then hands it on to the adjoining control center...
...East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts. "We have other uses for the brick and iron." The nearby bird cage, by contrast, is the center of activity in the park. On the afternoon of our arrival, a squad of preteenage girls, dressed in uniforms consisting of white blouses and black trousers and wearing the red bandannas of the Pioneer Communist Youth Organization, marched around the cage. Three off-duty soldiers in green pith helmets looked on with amusement...
...that end, she has crowded the turreted, Victorian Admiral's House that serves as the Vice President's official residence in Washington with 52 works by U.S. artists-sculptures, paintings and handicrafts. Joan, a longtime art buff, helped Martin Friedman, director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, choose the loan collection from museums in the Middle West. "We tend to forget," she said, "that there is an active and deeply committed world of art out there between the East and West coasts...
Richmond co-designed the Neighborhood Health Center program for the Office of Economic Opportunity in the mid-'60s and funded the federal Head Start program...
Willie, a former research sociologist with the New York State Mental Health Commission, is a consultant to the Center for Minority Health Programs of the National Institute of Mental Health...