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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a Soviet SST and the Anglo-French Concorde already being successfully test-flown, what has delayed the American SST? Two years ago, the U.S. made the decision to build an SST. Later, Boeing, the contract winner, encountered major design problems: its radical swing-wing concept was an economic disaster. The engineers went back to their drawing boards and last fall came up with another SST, this time a fixed delta-wing titanium plane capable of cruising at a speed of 1,800 m.p.h. while carrying more than 250 passengers 4,000 miles...
...LOOK Board of Regents first flexed its conservative muscles last November, during the Cleaver affair. In the wake of the '66 Berkeley riots, the Regents had set up special student-faculty committees to design and select new courses. Last fall, the Berkeley committee came up with a number of new courses--including one on U.S. racism. The lecturer was to be Eldridge Cleaver, who was then a U.S. resident and available for such duties...
Students have attended occasional committee meetings in the past, but not on a regular basis. Under the new system, the departments of Urban Design, City Planning, and Landscape Architecture will each have one elected student representative, and Architecture...
Sert said he expected work to continue despite finances, but agreed that many changes in design would have to be made due to lack of funds...
Between 150 and 200 students--about half the Design School's enrollment--have attended meetings to discuss and criticize Gund Hall in the past two weeks. Most have been Architecture students, but students in the other Design School departments were also involved...