Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newspaper class has put out five issues of Challenge, complete with reporting, announcements, and editorials. Science is the favorite subject for many of the students. Using Harvard lab facilities, they dissect frogs and do experiments. Photography too has flourished with free supplies provided by the Kodak Company. Of the electives, only Social Studies teacher tried a Summer hill approach, but the boys complained that they spent all their time talking about what the class was going to do without ever doing anything...
Doctors and nurses sent messages from one floor to another on an antiquated dumbwaiter. Laboratory technicians had to huddle in the center of the lab because the inadequate lighting cast shadows in the corners. Offices and consulting rooms were not much bigger than closets, and flights of twisting stairs separated the registration desk, the offices, and the surgical ward. In surgery, instruments were sterilized in an old "potboiler" that resembled dining hall washing machines...
...CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite leads his fans into the research lab, up to the observatory and through the radio telescope for a peek at "Mars and Beyond...
...clothes (specially coated to retain fire resistance) can be washed and ironed as many as 20 times, looks forward to knit and stretch paper for stockings, lingerie and ski pants. Mars Manufacturing is already testing paper golf slacks and underwear, sees the greatest promise in industrial clothing such as lab coats and coveralls. Inman Cook, who is preparing to open a store called Paperworks in Manhattan, thinks home furnishings are the likeliest area, plans to offer paper curtains, drapes and sheets. Sterling Paper believes in paper resort wear, the idea being that vacationers could buy paper clothes at the hotel...
...With "In the Lab: Too Many Defective Tests" [Feb. 17], you've opened the door on a very ugly situation...