Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellites carried Harvard telescopes similar to this one. But the first telescope aboard OSO-II failed only seconds after being switched on, and a surge of electric power from a faulty transformer ruined the telescope on OSO-IV after six weeks of operation. However, the data from those six weeks has kept astronomers here more than busy for two years...
...prevent such a failure from happening again, the Observatory scientists checked the OSO-VI transformer for gas bubbles while keeping it sealed in a vacuum chamber for a month. They also added an extra circuit that automatically turns the telescope off when too much electric power is produced. The satellite can be turned back on again once the danger is past...
...best example of the dichotomy may have been the "psyche" period before the Penn meet. Penn, as they had let everyone know, was the rising cross-country power in the East. Their freshman team swept Harvard's last fall, and veteran George Lokken was returning...
...There has been considerable friction between the two squads ever since the Red and Blue declared itself a major cross-country power last fall. The Crimson runners consider Penn a group of storm troopers in running spikes...
Recommendations of the Committee included a 20-man Faculty Council, which would replace the present Committee on Educational Policy and act "as a combined dean's cabinet and steering committee of the Faculty," and three joint student-Faculty committees, on which students would have full voting power...