Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council will try to obtain the support of the Union Committee in this project, which Council President John F. Maher '60 calls a gift from this year's freshmen class to next year...
...protecting monkeys from the immediate effects of lethal radiation. AET was developed at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Still to be determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses of radiation disrupt the normal production of blood elements, causing dangerous anemia and other side effects. Using a technique first developed on mice, Overman has saved monkeys after exposure to normally lethal radiation (700 roentgens) by injections...
...Manhattan itself, which has no educational TV station, NBC's key station WRCA will broadcast kinescopes of the series during slack hours on Saturdays and Sundays. But millions of U.S. viewers are out of range of the educational stations-they will get no benefit from the NBC project, and will have to take hope for the future in the high intentions voiced by commercial broadcasters fortnight ago at a Boston conference on public-service programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have...
...Prudential's latest project is a $100 million regional home office and city center in Boston (TIME, Feb. 11). Many insurance men would quail at such an enormous expenditure. Says Shanks: "You can find all the reasons for not doing a thing, or you can find some reasons for doing it. If the reasons for doing it are good, then you have got to have the courage to try it, and work out the problems as they come...
...committee must raise $500,000 by January, 1958 to match an equivalent Ford Foundation grant made in 1955. The group will attempt to raise at the same time the additional $750,000 required for the project...