Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast-changing world of missilery, the Air Force last week got go-ahead orders on the wildest blue-yonder project in its history. Name of project: Minuteman. Nature of Minuteman: a whole new weapons system of 3,000 to 4,000 solid-fuel "second-generation" missiles of variable 500-mile to 5,500-mile range, each to be kept in a state of pushbutton readiness, warheaded, target-aimed, in concealed and dispersed underground launching slots...
...third Air Force project is a true manned orbiter, launched from the ground as the final stage of a great rocket weighing several hundred thousand pounds. Putt does not tell much about it except that it will be "suitable for manned re-entry and recovery...
...music library. In the hope that it will come to be a major center of musical research and consequently a strong incentive to study at Harvard, the library is currently the fortunate beneficiary of a large part of the Department's money and energy. It is an altogether worthwhile project, but is not in itself a solution to the problems besetting the department...
Stinson speculated that, since the University was investing so much money in the project, it would want a voice in its control. Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., architect for the theatre, was unavailable for comment, as he is in Europe studying theatre design...
Working Committee. In Peterborough, Ont., when the mayor asked an opinion on the ideal size of a group to study a proposed junior college project, Alderman Ross Dobbin volunteered: "Three people -one dead and one out of town...