Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-M.I.T. committee has submitted plans to the Federal government proposing the construction in New England of the world's largest steerable radio telescope. The 300 to 500-foot instrument would be operated by a group of New England colleges including Harvard and M.I.T...
...cost would be astronomical-as much as $5 billion. But the instrument could advance the infant art of radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument radio astronomers pick up a hint of an intelligent pattern in UHF signals from space, Oliver says, "an age-old question will have been answered. We will know that we are not alone...
...amateur musicians in the U.S. last year, up from 19 million in 1950. Mostly they played the piano (22.3 million), the guitar (7,500,000) and the organ (3,600,000). The ukulele and the accordion, fortunately, lost ground. In 1950 one of every 7.8 Americans played a musical instrument; today the ratio is one of every 4.8, making self-made music second only to reading as the nation's most popular leisure-time activity...
...California's Edwards Air Force Base, where he headed the X-15 rocket aircraft program and in 1964 staged the first test flight of the experimental B70 supersonic bomber; when the T-38A supersonic jet trainer he was piloting crashed into Puget Sound during a bad-weather instrument landing at Seattle's Boeing Field...
...tutors apparently underestimated the strength of the senior faculty's commitment to the thesis as an educational instrument. "The senior faculty feels very strongly that the thesis is the backbone of the entire program," said one tutor. The thesis is invaluable as "a pedagogical tool," said Gordon S. Wood, the Department's assistant senior tutor, which "gives the student the best understanding of the nature of history that he will get in four years here." The senior seminar would have bypassed the thesis, and there were also financial difficulties in setting up a large seminar program...