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...literary pros who construct these buildings agree that the hardest problem is getting the girl into the house for a believable reason. The classic way-introducing her as governess-is still not scorned, but it is somewhat dated and overused. Alternatively, she can be a secretary, nurse, an orphaned relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Road to Manderley | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...estimates that the industry now handles $2.5 billion worth of non-aerospace business annually, including urban studies, pollution control and housing. For example, the Rohr Corp., a subcontractor of airplane parts, two years ago began studying rail-transit problems and has since won a profitable, $66.7 million contract to construct cars for San Francisco's new rapid-transit system. Railroads of all kinds are the projects most often mentioned as possible conversion targets for the aerospace industry. Says Dr. Richard Michaels, research director of Northwestern University's transportation center: "There is no way to make rail passenger service profitable with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aerospace: The Troubled Blue Yonder | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Most intriguing of all, light measurements by Pioneer's imaging photo-polarimeter will enable computers on earth to construct about ten pictures of the planet that will show features as small as 250 miles across. Although the resolution is not much greater than that achieved by terrestrial telescopes, the pictures will be shot from glare-free angles completely unobtainable on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey to Jupiter | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...Architectural Technology Workshop, located at 888 Memorial Drive near Peabody Terrace, houses design workshops and two classes per week in the Graduate School of Design. The building is part of the Treelands site and is slated for demolition in the plan to construct new graduate school housing...

Author: By Katharine L. Day and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Women's Group Seizes Harvard Building | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...revolutionary regime is becoming more and more dependent on the military support of the Soviet Union, which has some 500 advisers in the Sudan. Farther down the Horn of Africa in Somalia (see map), there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: The Soviet Viet Nam | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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