Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidents of the ten Final Clubs will serve on an advisory Board of Patrons to the Combined Charities Drive next year. Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the Drive, said yesterday that the move is planned in an attempt to increase undergraduate interest in the Drive and also to increase its overall prestige...
...Club presidents will be members of this Board as private individuals, but Drive authorities hope that active participation by the presidents will increase interest in the Drive among Club members. For the same reasons, Phillips stated, the heads of other undergraduate activities will serve as unofficial sponsors of the Drive, although they will have no actual part in conducting the drive...
...dish antenna. A nest of these tubes can be focused at a point about 50,000 ft. up. Some of the beams' energy will wander off into space, but Raytheon scientists believe that a saucer-shaped receiver can capture 35% to 50%. Turned into heat, this energy could drive a gas turbine which would drive the helicopter blades...
...assemble the darn thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned him into a car bug. It also made him determined to fill his father's oversized boots. A broad- shouldered (185 Ibs., 6 ft.), soft-spoken young man, Knudsen had the single-minded drive of a piston. He worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac, as a menial "tool chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense...
...prerecession level. The boost reflected heavier demands for bank loans by both business and consumers, also brought loan rates into line with yields on bonds. Most bankers now expect that the Federal Reserve will raise the discount rate from its current 3%. As interest rates climb, they will drive down farther a market already at a historic...