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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to add, however, that if moving out of the Houses were to be considered, main problems would be to determine what would be "a good cause" for moving, and where the student would live. These, however, he felt were "ducking and dodging" the fact that "Harvard has got to face this some time: at some point they just cannot accept any more people; we're badly overloaded for the equipment now in the Houses...
...main reason for putting Vanguard into a separate, low-priority compartment was that the Pentagon wanted to keep the satellite project from interfering with the U.S.'s top-priority program of military ballistic-missile research. For eight lost years after World War II, the U.S. had spent an average of less than $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistic-missile projects. The Eisenhower Administration decided in 1954 to push ballistic-missile development, after the physicists decided that they could make a hydrogen warhead light enough to be carried in the nose of a missile. The Russians, well...
...last week Nikita Khrushchev flexed his muscles and sent out signals in the toughest kind of Russian. For his main transmitter the exultant Soviet boss chose visiting U.S. Newsman James Reston, shrewdly calculating that as Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, Reston was in a position to give the message maximum amplification...
Aware of these facts, some U.S. cities have not done too badly by their airports. Boston's Logan International Airport has the longest main runway (10,022 ft.) of any commercial field in the U.S., no tall buildings on the horizon, well-compacted runways that can withstand almost any amount of pounding. It has a new approach lighting system for safe, sure landings in bad weather, and a big, decentralized terminal that minimizes the passengers' ground time, which many experts say may be 25% of all air-travel time in the jet age. The Massachusetts legislature has also...
Perri (Buena Vista) is a squirrel who, presumably, was walking along the main stem one day, minding her own business, when along came a fellow from the Walt Disney studios and asked her how she would like to be in pictures-not in any old cartoon, but in a brand-new sort of thing called "a true-life fantasy." Assuming that her squeals were intended to signify delight, the fellow promptly popped her into a crate, and away she went bouncing to fame and misfortune...