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...seemed to be moving in, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was able last week to make some solid news. The AEC reported that it is accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing aircraft reactors ... is nearing...
Those students meeting the elementary Natural Sciences requirement by taking three elementary science and mathematics course would be required to take an additional upper-level half-year course in the philosophy and methodology of science, for purposes of general education...
...plan would expand Astronomy 120, Practical Astronomy, from a half-year course to a full-year course. "The change would give students a more thorough treatment of the material at a more leisurely pace," he explained...
...chairman returned to the Classics department at the beginning of the spring term, following a half-year sabbatical leave which he spent at his New Hampshire farm preparing a new book...
...training program provides for a half-year of actual classroom practice in suburban Boston schools as a regular part of the Education School curriculum. The trainees will be paid for their services while they learn...