Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University officials have pointed out that the present situation is "a conflict between two good things." Although on the one hand, Mt. Auburn may someday be able to use the land to expand its facilities, on the other, the property, if sold to a private developer, could produce an additional and lucrative source of revenue for the City...
...Swatantra is the "millionaires' party," C.R. has been generally unsuccessful in attracting financial support from India's richest corporations. Right-wing businessmen instead contribute generously to Congress, for obvious reasons: they depend on the government for the permits and licenses without which their businesses cannot function or expand. One industrialist, J.R.D. Tata, head of the huge Tata iron and steel combine, has had the courage to give one-third of his campaign contribution to the Swatantra, the rest to Congress. Says Party Leader Rajagopalachari of the license system he detests: "We got rid of the British...
...pace in the academic world if its library cannot Inspire the support of alumni and federal agencies? (And if the library goes where will we be?) How can Harvard reach the right kind of student under admissions machinery that is about to crack? Where will the already sprawling University expand its physical plant without allenating its neighbors, wrecking the neighborhood, or breaking up the University itself? Where will Harvard's money come from if rapidly increasing tuition brings an "economic elite" and if too much reliance on government funds brings "thought control...
...folded deflated balloon of plastic film and aluminum foil. This was Echo A12, an experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...
Scientists gathered around a TV screen at Cape Canaveral, watched the canister soar free. Out swelled the silvery balloon. It took shape swiftly-too swiftly. The balloon expanded to its full 135-ft-diameter in two seconds. Then a rip raced across the silvery skin; almost instantaneously the great balloon tore into shapeless shreds. The pictures were so good that they could be reshown on household TV sets. Back to the drawing boards went Echo A12's designers. But airborne TV had already told them what had gone wrong: Echo A12 contained too much residual air, which made...