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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad makes its own schedule, provides its own transportation, and pays all additional expenses out of its own pocket, including the cost of uniforms. Yet the team members have been constantly trying to organize and expand their program...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
...Army R.O.T.C. showed the way to expand in emergencies. The size at College jumped from 360 to 520 men then. Sophomores were allowed to join the corps too; in fact, they could do so until 1947. Military Science instruction was given in half courses in order that new enrollments might take place at mid-year...
...School will expand its courses and seminars on world organization through an endowed chair, Dean Griswold announced yesterday...
...stuck to that requirement until a Student Council Committee on R.O.T.C. made its report two weeks ago. In that report, the committee noted increased R.O.T.C interest at Harvard and the prospect of a large drop in the College's tuition income next year, and made several recommendations to expand Army R.O.T.C. here...