Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winston, an English major, will receive the $1,000 award jointly with Franklin J. Kosdon of M.I.T. for their invention of a solid rocket propellent. The project was part of a long-range plan to construct and launch a probe rocket intended to carry an instrument package thirty or forty miles into the atmosphere...
...complications began when WHRB-FM moved its antenna to the top of the new Holyoke Health Center. The FCC granted permission to construct a new tower last July, but the installation was not finished until the second week in September...
...temple will be difficult and painstaking. Because the rock out of which it was carved is full of cracks and weak places, the Italian engineers plan to remove all the rock over the temple, then drive shafts and tunnels around and under it. In this way, they will construct bit by bit an enormously strong, roughly cubical caisson of reinforced concrete to enclose the temple. The great box with its contents will weigh something like 300,000 tons, will probably be the heaviest weight ever lifted...
...weight. In 29 months, if all goes well, the temple with its giant figures and the rock enclosing its inner rooms will rise 203 ft., safely above the water. It will then be set into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front of the temple a shelving piece of ground resembling the shore of the Nile, now left far below. When all is done, the great figures of Ramses II will stare out over the Aswan lake, as they stared out over the Nile before its waters rose...
...Editor-in-Chief Hearst, National Editor Frank Conniff and Columnist Bob Considine-aimed for President de Gaulle, but missed (he never grants such audiences, not even with a Hearst) and had to settle for Premier Michel Debré. What about France's future? they asked. "One must never construct the distant future with only the date of the present time," answered Debré vaguely. Before cabling this wisdom to the U.S., Debré's visitors promised to send him a copy of their story...