Word: mcfarland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McFarland, director of personnel services at GM, explained that under the latter plan, winners of national scholarships tended to concentrate in a small number of select colleges, like Harvard in an effort to include more colleges in the program, GM imposed in 1960 a quota on the number of national winners that any one institution could have...
...EUGENE MCFARLAND...
...Ross A. McFarland, professor of Environmental Health and Safety, will direct the greatly expanded program. He will conduct exhaustive tests to determine at what point in outer space a man's senses, thinking, and body efficiency begin to be impaired by travel towards the moon. McFarland is now director of the Center established...
...McFarland and colleagues at the Center will also investigate the poisonous properties of fuels, radioactivity of power sources and spaceship cabins, and the many problems of breathing in closed systems...
Frank Knox memorial fellowships, providing a year of study in one of the nations of the British Commonwealth, have been awarded to eight seniors: Keith H. Basso, Joseph L. Featherstone, Mitchell H. Gall, Burt P. Johnson Jr., Robert J. Klein, Norton D. Lang, Peter W. Stanley, and Curtis D. McFarland. Students are selected for the awards, established in honor of Frank Knox '42, on the basis of academic and extra-curricular achievements...