Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turning furiously to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the association charged that the FPC action amounted to "administrative lawlessness" and de manded that the court order the license revoked. Chief argument: under the terms of the Federal Power Act. the FPC was required to choose a project "best adapted to a comprehensive plan" for public-resource development. Declared the association: a federal high dam would meet that requirement, the Idaho Power Co.'s private project does...
Whatever one thinks of Vellucci's proposals, the Councillor has definitely become a force to reckon with in the Cambridge community. Whenever Harvard or M.I.T. plans a project which requires any sort of delicate negotiating, the utmost care is taken to shield proceedings from the eye of the Councillor. As one M.I.T. spokesman said recently, "You just can't imagine what a cramp he can put in things when he starts poking around...
Laughton's production, while it makes all these ideas tangible, gives the actors a peculiar kind of challenge. They must rely on their voices and Shaw's lines to project the matter of the play, rather than on movement or color or the suspense of a tight plot. Laughton handles his role most satisfactorily. Sometimes relaxed into an engaging slouch, he yet rouses himself to an oratorical fervor of Churchillian stature that all but sweeps away his opponents, including the audience. Glynis Johns' characterization of Major Barbara is much less successful. She possesses an interesting voice--a sort of throaty...
...could be revived, or if some similar group could be set up in the GSAS, the foreign student might be integrated into the Harvard community more successfully. Such a group could interest the various clubs with any international flavor, such as the Harvard-Delhi project, the World Federalists, or the language clubs, in extending special invitations to foreign students. It could also interest individual American students in dropping in at 33 Garden Street for an evening, or in making a special effort to meet the foreigners. The foreign student problem at Harvard is one of missed opportunities, opportunities which could...
...Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter. It read...