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Prospects of a skyscraper city, the profitable place for a subway system, were thwarted from the start; the mud banks didn't have any rock base on which to construct high buildings. While stony Manhatten Island packs over 85,000 people to the square mile with more being squeezed in every day, Boston manages only 18,000 and the figure is not going up. Inexpensive operation of a transit system in decentralized Boston is impossible. MTA authorities chose the fairest way out of their deficit problem when they hiked the fare from ten to fifteen cents...
President Conant was a member of the advisory committee that supervised the Manhatten project...
Robert B. Wilson, associate professor of Physics and former head of the Division of Experimental Physics at the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhatten Project, will on February 1 assume duties as Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University, President Edmund E. Day of Cornell announced yesterday...
...coach Elmer Lampe, has been a disappointment to court followers who are accustomed to Big Green supremacy hereabouts. The Indians, after squeaking through against Rutgers and Union, among others, by narrow margins, suffered six defeats in a row during the vacation, although they met outstanding competition in Holy Cross, Manhatten, Toledo, Notre Dame, and California, which pasted the Hanover crowd twice. Even more distressing to Lampe, is the graduation in February of Aud Brindley, towering center, and Eddie Leede, another high scorer. Columbia has center Walt Budko, but apparently the Lions need four other guys...
Using "restricted" movies of the Bikini tests to illustrate his points, Major General Leslie R. Groves, Commanding Officer of the Manhatten project will address the Harvard Engineering Society on the atomic bomb and nuclear energy tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock...