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...rare properties of the anechoic chamber are achieved with foot-thick concrete walls and special sound-absorbing wedges protruding into the chamber from the ceiling, walls and floor. A metal grate is suspended in the center of the chamber from which measurements and observations can be made...
Harvard's chamber was built by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the late 1940's in connection with research by Frederick V. Hunt, then a professor of Physics. The ONR has supported numerous research projects at American universities since World War II. Hunt has now retired from Harvard and no longer needs the anechoic chamber...
Furthermore, Peter S. McKinney, director of the Laboratories of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, said that research requiring the chamber has been very limited in the last five years...
According to Harvard's contract with the ONR, Harvard could buy the building for one dollar but would then have to assume the cost of tearing it down. Since the chamber wasnot being used, ONR gave Harvard until July 1971 to decide whether to buy it or let ONR tear it down. After some deliberation, Harvard took the latter choice...
Ignoring defense pleas for a "gift of life," a California jury yesterday returned a sentence of death in San Qentin's gas chamber for Charles Manson and three women accomplices-Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten-convicted of the Sharon Tate murders...