Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, with TIME's biggest map project to date in print, Researcher Dempster is in Rio, attending the 18th International Geographical Union...
...music has long seemed both sterile and inhibited. Composer Howard Brubeck, a college music teacher and brother of Pianist Dave Brubeck, wrote his Dialogues in an effort to un-inhibit things by wedding improvisation with formal music. Both the jazzmen and the symphonic musicians had some doubts about the project. "We can't memorize and play a piece we don't like the way a legit musician can," Dave said when he first heard Howard's plans. But he changed his mind when he heard Howard's fast-breaking, dissonant orchestral score...
Brigadier General Don R. Ostrander, Assistant Deputy Commander of the Air Research and Development Command, disclosed that several companies are working on each of the four major components of the missiles: air frame, propulsion system, nose cone, guidance system. The project is being technically supervised by Los Angeles' young, hustling Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., headed by two top research scientists, Dr. Dean Wooldridge, 43, and Dr. Simon Ramo, 43, who seceded from Hughes Aircraft less than three years ago to found their own electronics corporation (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953). They answer directly to the Air Force's Western Development...
...physicians turned out by 82 U.S. medical schools last year, only 173 were Negroes, and 132 of these graduated from Howard University and Meharry Medical College (both Negro schools), complained Dean Robert S. Jason of Howard's School of Medicine. ¶ The first report on a research project financed in part by the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIME, Nov. 15, 1954) was published by Providence Drs. Philip Cooper and James B. Knight Jr., and it had nothing to do with cigarettes and cancer. It indicated that while individual duodenal ulcer patients react differently to smoking, there is no consistent...
...bankers and charterers (in fluent French or English) over leisurely luncheons at quietly opulent restaurants such as Manhattan's Chambord and London's Mirabelle. Wherever he goes, he is dogged by daily packets containing interoffice memos and notes from his staff. When he wants to discuss a project with an associate, Niarchos summons the man to his side, once kept staffers shuttling to and from Switzerland for three months while he recovered from a skiing accident...