Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on receding U.S. shorelines [April 26], the statement that in Miami Beach the ocean "threatens to topple a brand-new high-rise apartment complex appropriately named Harbour House" is absolutely untrue. We have been advised by competent engineers and architects that our buildings are constructed on a solid foundation of hundreds of pilings, and the sea wall was designed and constructed so as to withstand every type of hurricane as well as the possibility of erosion. Our architect has reported to us that "if the Harbour House were placed out in the middle of the ocean...
Technically, the community committee had a weak case. Rhody McCoy, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville administrator, finally filed charges against ten of the teachers. He cited the "excessive lateness" of one, the failure of four others to maintain class discipline, unspecified opposition to the decentralization experiment by others. A retired Negro judge appointed to hear the cases found that witnesses could not document incidents or convincingly detail the teachers' failings, recommended that the ten be retained. McCoy insists that they cannot return. Shanker and the central school board insist that they must. The U.F.T. fears that decentralization would break...
...Process. Most of the anger swirls about a demonstration district in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Set up last year to test the potential problems and benefits of decentralization, the project gave a community-controlled committee the right to evaluate teachers, supervise curriculum and spend funds allocated by the central school board. The hope was that community involvement would lead to closer rapport with teachers, more interested students, a better curriculum and, above all, a halt in the steady decline in student skills...
During laboratory tests, Buehler and Physicist Frederick Wang reported in Ocean Engineering, they fashioned Nitinol into a complex shape at a high temperature, then cooled it and crushed it beyond recognition. When they heated the alloy again, it magically regained its original shape, "remembering" every curve and angle...
...trouble of assembling structures under the sea, for example, Buehler suggests prefabricating them out of Nitinol set below seawater temperatures, cooling and compressing them and then airdropping them-still cooled -into the water. Raised above their transitional temperature by the water, they would unfold and remain rigid on the ocean bottom...