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...lurking, inanimate devils. One by one they were driven out of their hiding places, although one Viking blew up and another tore itself free during a static test. At last, after years of trying, Viking7 triumphed, rising 137 miles and exceeding the altitude record (114 miles) of the much larger and more expensive German V2. In 1954, Viking-11 established a new record (158 miles) for a single-stage rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trial by Viking | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

There have always been certain Army objections to the plan, the main ones being financial and administrative. It believed that by changing the present program, a much larger sum would be needed than it can presently afford. Also it felt that the plan would be impractical at certain schools which lack Harvard's large staff...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: ROTC Revisions Meet Opposition in Pentagon | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

This problem will be magnified by the increase number of history courses to be offered after replacing faculty vacancies. At present, the department has attempted to solve the problem by assigning different types of work to concentrators and non-concentrators in such courses as "The Art of Bach." Larger institutions are able to offer wholly separate history courses of varying technicality, but the limit on the number of permanent appointees here prohibits that arrangement...

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: The Department of Music: General Education Versus Well-Tempered Theory and Scholarship | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

...College's trial system of tentative admissions to the freshman class has fouled the calculations of at least one other New England college, Amherst, which reported yesterday that its Class of 1959 will be almost 30 percent larger than expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Application System Here Causes Confusion in Amherst Admissions | 5/24/1955 | See Source »

Playing behind Cooney will be Brock Stokes, Bob Ornsteen, Bruce Thurmond, Jim Jones, Roger Fleischmann, and Jim Bailey in that order. The seven-man team is one larger than the team which tied Yale only to lose in the playoff between Cooney and Fehr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golf Team To Face Elis Here | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

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