Word: instrumentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rayburn had been setting Shivers up for the kill ever since 1952, when Shivers bolted his party and led Texas into the Eisenhower column. Picking his instrument of revenge. Mistuh Sam threw his vast party influence behind his longtime protege, Johnson, and labored mightily to build Johnson's prestige. Rayburn's plans were almost wrecked when Johnson suffered a heart attack last year. But Allan Shivers was in trouble too: he was serving a third full term in a state that likes its governors to retire gracefully after two; his administration was rocked by land and insurance scandals...
...Dulles had talked tentatively of NATO channeling aid to underdeveloped countries in the Middle East or North Africa. But even before the conference opened. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd rejected the idea of NATO aid in the Middle or Far East, pointing to the Baghdad Pact as a better instrument in the Middle East, the Colombo Plan in Asia. And the French stiffly declared that they were quite capable of supplying all the economic aid North Africa needs and wanted no help from their allies...
...expectancy was in the air. NATO's leading nation had at last accepted the proposition put forward long ago by Canada's "Mike" Pearson and Italy's Giovanni Gronchi-that NATO should broaden its strictly military base and serve as the free world's chosen instrument in politics and economics...
...George R. Agassiz Radio Telescope was built with the aid of a $132,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. To be put into operation within the week, this instrument will play a significant part in the development of the new science...
More than 200 astronomers, from as far away as Australia, gathered here today to witness the dedication. The new instrument will supplement the 24-foot telescope now at the Agassiz Station, and the combination will give the Observatory the most expensive facilities for radio astronomy research in the country...