Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel so badly about is that the emphasis should be upon our having made a step. . .which is really fine and not upon who gets the credit for accomplishing this task. But for the CRIMSON to insist through its deletion of the facts that this is their own project is very unfair...
...what's new in modern low-cost architecture. Pick of the new buildings: ¶ From France, Le Corbusier, designer of Marseille's Radiant City (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948 et seq.) and India's new city of Chandigarh (TIME, June 8, 1953), submitted the most controversial project of all. In an effort to win over Europe's most famed architect, Berlin city officials agreed to waive low unit costs, promised Le Corbusier a top commission, drew the line only when plans for his 300-apartment building showed ceilings only 7 ft. 5 in. high. "Le Corbu" argued...
...most ambitious project was Robert Montgomery's Portrait of a Man, which struggled to compress into less than an hour the life and times of Albert Einstein. Properly despairing of trying to explain E=mc2 to his audience, Producer Montgomery tried instead to build up a lovable Mr. Chips. He failed, largely because the camera never showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing...
Thirteen passengers must be found before tomorrow's deadline if the so-called "Europe Cooperative" project to charter a plane for a round-trip flight to the Continent is to succeed, announced Victor R. Besso '57, co-chairman of the enterprise...
...brought closer to home soon when a radar network is constructed in Southern Massachusetts to study meteors. A million-watt transmitter will bounce radar waves off meteors onto a string of six receivers spaced seven miles apart. The program is to be completed in conjunction with M.I.T.'s project Lincoln...