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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McElroy has yet made: the vast, complex job of building a weapons system to intercept and destroy an attacking missile will be split in effect between two hotly competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy did not specify which service would operate the weapons system once...
...University announced yesterday tentative plans to re-develop Boylston Hall. The century-old structure was first used as a chemistry laboratory, and until recently housed the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Died. Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney, 89, cheerful, kindly industrial scientist, founder and longtime (1900-32) director of General Electric's Research Laboratory; of a heart attack; in Schenectady. Drafted by G.E. from M.I.T. (where he developed the now accepted electrochemical theory of corrosion), Researcher Whitney set up the country's first industrial-research lab in a Schenectady barn, spurred on an alert crew of scientists (including William D. Coolidge, Irving Langmuir) to develop the modern electric-light bulb and turn out a wide assortment of major electronic discoveries...
...mosquito to men and back again, has such an incredibly complicated life cycle that no one drug can kill its various forms, lodged in hideouts in different parts of the body. Area spraying (from Airplanes or trucks) is expensive, inefficient and may be self-defeating: some of the Anopheles develop resistance to DDT, thereafter thrive in its presence...
...million in research into everything from desalting of sea water to astronautics. Though it can hope for no profit for years, it has sunk $15 million into its General Atomic Division for basic research rather than have it manufacture reactors that may soon be obsolete, thus hopes to develop better models and get a bigger market in the 1960s...