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...upper lever Humanities program will gain four courses next year. Alan E. Heimert, assistant professor of English, will give Hum 144, Intellectual Dialogue in Nineteenth Century America...
Peterson (minutes later): I think we are about five miles out now. We are going to start making our approach . . . It's hard to operate. If we pull this lever here, would it slow up the plane...
...gifted contemporaries as Mies van der Rohe, Breuer, Gropius, Saarinen, Rudolph, Belluschi and Nervi. Architects themselves seem highly mindful of TIME'S role in bringing architecture to a wider public. Gordon Bunshaft, the man who gave a lift to Manhattan's Park Avenue with his famous postwar Lever House, says. "There are times when we don't know whether we're working for a client or for TIME...
Military Snickers. In De Gaulle's eyes, France's most effective lever on leadership will be its force de frappe, which he will brandish as proof of France's rightful place beside the U.S. and Britain in directing Western policy. Its private deterrent is an expensive luxury for France-$300 million a year-and will become costlier still. For its money, France next year will have an operational force of 50 short-range Mirage IV bombers, each carrying two relatively low-yield atom bombs. Snickering military experts point out that this will be equal to only...
...nearly as big. Activate its batteries and an aerial view of a terrain nicely dotted with factories, bridges and other targets moves across a simulated TV screen; a silhouette of a plane also appears, and by turning the controls this can be made to pass "over" a target. A lever launches missiles from the cowling. More dazzling than durable, it is sold in supermarkets exclusively. Deluxe Reading Corp...