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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampton, Va., the Astronauts will work along with the engineers-as experimental test pilots always do. Each man will help design one component of the space capsule: communications system, propulsion, instrumentation, etc. To toughen up for the physical trials and psychological terrors of space, they will spend hours in low-pressure chambers, wind tunnels, human cocktail shakers; they will be jolted on supersonic rocket sleds, flown in balloons and supersonic aircraft and eventually test-rocketed by Army Redstone missiles at 4,000 m.p.h. more than 100 miles from Cape Canaveral down the Atlantic firing range...
...work in some ways, since Mr. Stewart contrasts tense, massive climaxes with passages that are almost flip--the sly fillip of the flute at the very end, for instance. The opening is very attractive, with the theme (almost a twelve-tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort of languourous waltz--the sense of direction is lost and the piece begins to maunder. The final movement was transmitted in rather hazy fashion by the unsure playing of the orchestra, but it seemed...
...Low scoring medalist was B.C.'s Dick Ganong, with a one over par 71 at the Unicorn Country Club in Stoneham. Playing against Ganong in the number two position, Crimson golfer Fisk Warren shot a 76. Captain Frank Dodge, playing in the first position, had a seven over par 69 after 16 holes...
Kaysen, like Bender, emphasized that Harvard alone cannot bring a change in secondary school educational policies. He conceded that mathematics standards might be too low, but agreed that any change must be done by large, widelyknown colleges working together...
Eliminating certain sports, although an easy panacea to the cost problem, is not an equitable solution. "Minor" sports represent the interests of a definite part of the undergraduate body--and just because the amount of interest is now low, this does not preclude a future increase in interest. Last June, the H.A.A. dropped lacrosse and golf as varsity sports, and reduced support for club-teams in sailing, skiing, rifle, and pistol--a savings of $15,000 annually (about the salary of a full professor...