Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among those at the most practical pole of space science is Astronauticist Charles Draper. In his capacity as head of M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab, Draper in 1960 was working on guidance systems for space vehicles of the Dyna-Soar type ?vehicles with supporting wings to get them out of the earth's atmosphere. He sees little future for manned space exploration in Project Mercury, which uses a ballistic missile, which is shot like a bullet, has no wings and not much control after it is fired. "That's sort of like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel," says...
...Corporation has approved plans for a $900,000 engineering lab designed by Minoru Yamaski. Construction, on a site on Oxford St. across from Lesley College, will probably start this summer, and may be completed by the summer...
...PRIZE OF ONE, headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money...
President Hicks's Kalamazoo boasts everything from a fine tennis team to useful lab training at the nearby Upjohn Co.; the school ranks third nationally in percentage of science majors who go on to earn doctorates. Through a special trust fund, half its freshman class will spend a summer of study in Europe before they graduate...
...ambitious French A student will find the film's dialogue not very difficult to comprehend, translated adequately by the subtitles (though, of course, without the many nuances which were important to the film) and, in general, much more fun than a language lab. Actually, though, much of the humor was wordless; director Rene Clair has not lost his touch for creating telling little dramas without dialogue (also without subtlety, as was most of the film...