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...even the carnival was affected by the heightened consciousness of Dartmouth students. The design of the giant ice sculpture in the center of the Green, which is the centerpiece of the midwinter celebration, portrays a "wild thing" modeled after a character created by children's author Maurice Sendak. Originally the design had the creature holding ski poles in his hands, but that design was modified to represent a creature with its arms "outstretched to the community for someone to help it up," a spokesman told The Dartmouth. A bust of Martin Luther King was considered by carnival organizers...
...Space Division in El Segundo, Calif., and rose to the rank of captain. During his time in the service, he worked on advanced tactical communications satellites. He left the Air Force in 1973 to join the Hughes Aircraft Co. as an engineer. There, Jarvis was again working on the design of advanced satellites when NASA asked Hughes to recommend one of its employees to be a payload specialist on the shuttle. Jarvis was among 600 workers who applied...
Jarvis' assignment aboard Challenger was to conduct a series of experiments to determine the effects of weightlessness on fluid contained in tanks. His findings, Hughes officials hoped, would help in the design of future communications satellites...
Courted by colleges across the country for her math and science skills, Resnik chose to attend Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, from which she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since...
...want to identify preservation as a major object for developers in Harvard Square...and develop regulation flexible enough to encourage good design," said Lester Barber, director of community planning. "We want to communicate with groups in Harvard Square to review development...