Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room of the old State Department Building, Washington. The seats are three-quarters filled with reporters. On stage, center, is HARRY TRUMAN, in snappy dark blue suit, with a blue pocket handkerchief peeping out of his breast pocket, matching his blue silk tie. Around him, PHOTOGRAPHERS and NEWSREEL MEN cluster. They have been specially invited by the President to give the broadest possible sweep of publicity to what...
...flat land of Edwards Air Force Base in California, a cluster of scientists and Air Force brass watched a silvery, swept-wing jet fighter roar down the runway and into the air for a test flight. It climbed high in the air, then leveled off and shot across the air base with a roar like a thunderclap. This week Long Island's Republic Aviation Corp. proudly announced the results of the flight: its XF-91, powered by a General Electric J47 turbojet and a Reaction Motors rocket engine, had become the first U.S. combat plane to fly through...
Tombstones & Capacitators. There are many who agree, and they can point to plenty of evidence that they are right. From Connecticut to Maine, hundreds of small new factories are now turning out products that were mere dreams a few years ago. Around Boston, a cluster of companies spew forth such electronic gadgets as diodes and transistors, computers and magnetron tubes. In Cambridge, Mass., along "Research Row" on the Charles River, scientists from M.I.T., Harvard and numerous companies bend over their gurgling test tubes, devising new products and methods for plastics, electronics and other industries. In Cohasset, Mass., a small seashore...
...last two lectures, Conant deals with the relation of human conduct and spiritual values to his brand of philosophy. While presenting a cluster of ideas, he manages to retain his highly skeptical and yet basically pragmatic view of the working of human judgment, which he believes to be inseparably interconnected with the many scientific conceptual schemes we have incorporated into our common sense world. Conant's myriads of new ideas are worth sampling, even if one does not agree with his way of viewing man's actions...
ROBERT M. CRANE, 35, Episcopalian; mortally wounded by enemy shellfire on March 11, 1952. He was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster (in lieu of a second Bronze Star) for heroism...