Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessary precursor to space travel, this satellite is due to be launched next fall, and a large part of the project's success depends on the preliminary work being done at the two observatories...
...direction in which the satellite is fired (getting it aloft is known as Project Vanguard) will set it so that it passes over the earth every 100 minutes in rings which would not exceed the fortieth parallel either north or south. Thus it would go no further north than Philadelphia, although it could easily be seen from Cambridge under good observing conditions...
...Louisville Orchestra's brave project for commissioning contemporary music, backed by a $500,000 Rockefeller grant, is in trouble. Its quota - 40-odd new works played and recorded every year-has faded to a mere seven this season. Reason: only 1,021 of the planned 6,000 record subscriptions have been sold, partly because of shoestring promotion. But Louisville still has i) an orchestra that has learned to read modern scores better than any other in the U.S., and 2) a fat bag of new music, some of it masterly, e.g., Roger Sessions' Idyll of Theocritus, Elliott Carter...
...process, conservatism has undergone as dramatic a transformation as the evolution of the 175-m.p.h. biplane into the 2,000-m.p.h. rocket aircraft. Through the Committee for Economic Development, the National Planning Association and scores of other groups, businessmen and educators are boldly charting economic and social policies that project conservatism's new look. Increasingly, its prophets are finding the word '"conservatism" inadequate to describe the aims and achievements of present-day capitalism. Eager sponsors have proffered a dozen new labels: capitalism with a conscience, enlightened conservatism, people's capitalism, etc. But still the most widely accepted...
Fathers of Annex juniors will be guests March 9 at the college's first "Father's Day," Mrs. Mildred P. Sherman, dean of public relations, announced this week in the Radcliffe "Newsletter." The project will be co-sponsored by the Junior Class Committee and the Administration...