Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE. Another $1 billion can be lopped off military and space research and development. Example: the Air Force will spend $430 million in fiscal 1968 on a manned orbital lab, but NASA is doing almost exactly the same job in its space program. Among the many other U.S. space projects that can be delayed is one costing $2 billion over the next five years to put a manned satellite into orbit for twelve months straight...
...important Ivy meets--Cornell and Princeton--are both away this year, but the Crimson does meet two of its tough non-Ivy opponents--F&M and Rutgers--in LAB engagements...
...student interests. An advertisement by Phillips Petroleum features a photograph of a young executive of the company, and his own words: "Phillips have given me a chance to 'create' myself ... I feel I am becoming a more complete person." He describes how his changing interests led him from the lab to the semi-plant, to process design, to market research, to international sales development...
Although some of the money will go for new courses and endowed professorships, most will cover new facilities, including a $14.5 million science center where students will have access to sophisticated computers and research equipment and lab courses will be delivered by TV. Harvard's science drive is the largest such specialized appeal ever launched by any college, but Ford expects that many more universities will be undertaking similar programs. "We can't say we're missionaries," he says. "But we can claim to be bellwethers...
...volunteer faculty has 25 professors from Cornell (including Historian L. Pearce Williams and Philosopher Edwin A. Burtt) and neighboring Ithaca College, 40 Cornell graduate students, plus high school and elementary teachers. Rent-free classrooms have been provided by a local junior high school, while Cornell offered lab and library privileges. The college's only expenses are for janitors and a secretary, and its $5,000 annual budget is covered by contributions from Ithaca residents, among them Cornell President James A. Perkins and Historian Clinton Rossiter, who plans to teach at the school next year...