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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of atmospheric physics has been largely supplanted by the investigation of weather-forecasting, Goody declared yesterday. A consequent desire on the part of many scientists to revive the currently-neglected field, he said, is primarily responsible for his success in obtaining financial support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goody Receives $120,000 in Grants For Atmospheric Physics Research | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

M.I.T. yesterday won a first step toward construction of a 400-car garage on land it now uses as a parking lot. The Cambridge City Council voted unanimously "for discontinuance as part of the public way" a plot of land now used for a city sidewalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. Recovers Land From City | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

Tech Planning Officer Malcolm D. Rivkin '53 said M.I.T. owns the property, but the City has an easement for a sidewalk in a strip along the parking lot. Rivkin explained that M.I.T. has drawn up preliminary plans for the garage, but needs part of a 37-square-foot triangle now occupied by the sidewalk to facilitate building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. Recovers Land From City | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

...facial shades: Quiz Pink and Umbrage Blue. As sponsor of the rigged $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge-which in four years helped triple Revlon's sales to $111 million and boost its profits sevenfold to $9.7 million-Revson was the center of a controversy over what part, if any, he played in the rigging. Revson denied all, told a congressional committee: "I was flabbergasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Unflabbergasted Genius | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice is a village girl who comes to the big city to visit her cousin and to escape from a sinister stranger who wants to kill her. They fall in love and go down to the city together to celebrate the carnival in the streets. There her enemy, who is Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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