Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-built Loeb Drama Center is already a problem. When the Loeb opens next year, the Faculty will acquire responsibility not only for a structure of brick, concrete, and glass, but also for a community of persons and organizations...
...piecing together radar and telemetry data, film sequences and fragments of wreckage dipped from the shallow waters off the cape, missilemen managed to figure out what went wrong: the loft. long fiber glass "nose fairing" that was supposed to protect the third stage and payload from air friction and buffeting in the upper atmosphere fell off prematurely, after 40 seconds instead of the programed 4½ minutes. Then the fierce drag of the atmosphere wrenched the payload-carrying third stage loose, made the second stage malfunction...
Guevara, a slim asthmatic who keeps a glass inhalator close at hand, becomes the country's economic commissar (while holding onto his auxiliary job as commander of Havana's Cabana Fortress). The son of an Argentine Communist mother, Guevara got his M.D. in Buenos Aires, then decided that "curing nations is more exciting than curing people." He turned up in Red-lining Guatemala of the early 1950s, where the man who was instructed to hire him as an inspector in the Agrarian Department remembers only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure...
...showing (from tests by a reputable private laboratory) that several brands of filtered cigarettes, marketed since midsummer, filter the tars and nicotine to an unprecedented low. PHS filter tests, on which Dr. Burney relied, were completed in the spring. For all his forthrightness, Dr. Burney was leading with a glass chin because his information was out of date...
Drawings call for a 40,000 square foot "F"-shaped structure with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...