Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Radio Astronomy Station was originally conceived strictly as a solar research project, but it is now branching out to study some of the other radio sources. A new $1,000,000 instrument, financed by the Air Force, now rises over 100 feet above the rocky soil of Cook Flat, dwarfing the solar equipment...
...feet in diameter made of giant metal plate rather that simple wire mesh. The massive structure, aptly described as a "moveable bridge" can be pointed at any spot in the sky by throwing a switch in the laboratory which has been constructed nearby. Unlike the sweep-frequency receivers, this instrument can only do observations at 950-megacycles (L-band) and 5,000 megacycles (C-band). No other comparable antenna in the world (and there are few of them) is operating at C-band and so any work which Harvard does at this frequency will be original...
BACH FOR HARPSICHORD (Columbia). Fernando Valenti has a lyrical touch for his mechanical instrument and just the blithe spirit to go with it. More musical than Malcolm, more guarded than Gould, Valenti plays a textbook Bach with joy and devotion...
...travel ban is useless as a way of protecting American citizens and preventing dollars from reaching Castro; it is worse than useless as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Forbidding all but a few people to go to Cuba invites defiance, especially defiance by people who, like these students, are pro-Castro to begin with and are likely to return with glowing reports of happy peasants and contented workers. In the process, the U.S. government is made to look as if it is trying to suppress "the real truth" about Cuba...
...support constitutional government, or we are going to lose any following that we can hope to obtain by throwing billions of dollars into Latin America." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening angrily suggested canceling all military aid (some $700 million since World War II) to prevent its use as "an instrument for the overthrow of established democracies...