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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawkins will be in charge of the $400-500,000 installation, to be built in conjunction with M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. The project will gain important information concerning the heights, velocities, orbts and origins of the meteors. Because the meteors' speed will be measured at six points, the effect of the atmosphere in decreasing velocity will be uniquely determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory to Operate Meteor-Study Radar Net | 3/23/1956 | See Source »

...graduates of a ten-year school can continue their studies, however. In fact, it is increasingly difficult to get into either an institute or a university. Technically, a student with all A's (or 5's, in the Russian system) can gain admission. Nowadays, however, this is no longer enough for the bigger universities. Most of them have started accepting only those students who have received a special gold medal for their-preparatory work or those who do well on a special examination, called the "concours." For provincial universities and institutes, however, the A's are still enough...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: A Closer Look at the Russian Point of View | 3/22/1956 | See Source »

...trend to professionalism tends to destroy the one thing which made America a great nation; great discoveries and inventions are made primarily for service and not for monetary gain." Rusty said that somewhere in The Decline and Fall Historian Edward Gibbon listed the professionalizing of athletics as one of the five reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. "And we are moving in that direction here. When we were youngsters, we played games because we wanted to, and won because we were the best, not because we expected to receive any extra rewards. Sometimes I wonder whether the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sometimes I Wonder | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last summer's Geneva spirit, are currently quoted at $53-75-Periodically, the Soviets talk about honoring the obligation. In 1933, to gain U.S. recognition, Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff even promised, among other things, to negotiate repayment. For good will Litvinoff assigned the U.S. Government the right to take over some Russian funds in the U.S., prorate the proceeds among bondholders and other creditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Promise Worth 2 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Local politicians sling mud with such obvious disregard for the validity of their charges, that the interested citizen can usually gain only a dramatic diversion by following their activities. The latest explosion at City Hall, however, reaches much deeper than the usual headline-grabbing maneuver. In effect, it is a public announcement that all efforts at either implementing Urban Renewal or continuing planning work have for the moment ground to a halt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners' Peanuts | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

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