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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corbusier, noted French modern architect, will design the new $1.2 million Visual Arts Center for the College. The Center, scheduled to occupy the present site of Farlow House, will be Le Corbusier's first building constructed in this country...
Even though the bulk of the crop--from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said the growers' spokesman, "on a cranberry witchhunt...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 16--President Eisenhower agreed tentatively today to a new 1962 military budget which proposes to trim manpower slightly while keeping defense spending at about the present $41 billion level. Modern weapons apparently will get the nod over personnel. Military manpower now is about 2 1/2 million. How much and where it might be pared was not disclosed...
...outstanding pilot enterprise is Flight Safety, Inc., owned (89% of the stock) and operated by Albert L. Ueltschi, 41, Pan Am captain, and, since 1944, pilot of the company's executive plane. In eight years Ueltschi has parlayed the money he raised by mortgaging his house into a million-dollar-a-year business employing 46 fulltime employees in New York, Chicago and Houston. Flight Safety provides instruction on new procedures and new aircraft to more than 800 professional pilots who fly the executive airplanes for some 200 major corporations, including Gulf Oil Corp., United States Steel Corp., American...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Filmed in India, this sobering documentary is a careful study of one of the sociologists' most serious problems: The Population Explosion. Indian officials and Indian and U.S. religious leaders discuss the significance of the startling (49 million a year) growth in the world's population...