Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs most benefit slum dwellers, but all admit ruefully that they have little concrete evidence to back them up. Partly because administrators have been extremely sensitive to criticism, partly because of political pressure for instant successes, "none of the programs have really been evaluated," says William Garrison, head of Northwestern University's Transportation Center...
...director of the National Bureau of Standards, agreed last October to head an Air Force-financed scientific team at the University of Colorado that will attempt to evaluate some of Project Blue Book's most intriguing unidentified cases. At the same time, Astronomer J. Allen Hynek, director of Northwestern University's Dearborn Observatory and the Air Force's longtime consultant on UFOs, wrote a significant letter to Science. (Had he spoken out earlier, Hynek says, "I would have been regarded as a nut.") In the letter, he took his fellow scientists to task for dismissing UFOs with...
...center cities," each "with a population of at least 50,000, plus that of its adjacent suburbs," the nation's metropolitan areas house 140 million Americans in less than a tenth of the country's acreage. † There are others at Columbia, New York and Boston Universities, Northwestern, the Universities of Chicago and Illinois, two branches of the University of California, and San Francisco State. Yale and U.S.C. are planning to establish centers...
Grudging Concession. While this activity went on behind the lines, the fate of troops at the front was still shrouded in a mist of claims and counterclaims. First, the federal troops of Major General Yakubu Gowon announced that they had captured the university town of Nsukka on the wooded northwestern plateau of Biafra, after days of shelling it with heavy mortars and howitzers. Radio Biafra grudgingly conceded the federal victory but accused the federals of using "white mercenaries who were painted black"-though no unprejudiced observer has spotted any such creatures. Then, next day, it proclaimed that Nsukka had been...
Cryotherapy - literally, treatment by extreme cold - is particularly valuable in ophthalmology. It has already destroyed eye tumors, removed cataracts and sealed lesions in the retina. Now Dr. John Bellows of Northwestern University reports that it is highly effective in the treatment of a viral infection of the eye called herpetic keratitis...