Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading prepared by last year's students. "Some of it is good, and some very bad," Leach comments. Army Col. Grank A. Osmanski, a Business School student, formed a student group which handled administrative details and preparation of literature for the program last year. "Osmanski literally saved the entire project," Leach entusiastically states. Now Leach's staff, available since the Ford grant, prepares and distributes reading for each week's session, freeing the students for more productive work in the course...
...molding just a thin surface of geometric shapes Nivola is able to keep the sculpture light and at the same time project it easily into large dimensions. "My dream," he says "is to make sculpture as big as buildings." Because he does not favor mere ornament or decoration, the relation between his sculpture and architecture is very close. Nivola aims at making his sculpture a functional element of architecture itself; perhaps solving architectural problems, but at any rate growing together with the building. Thus sculpture like the free standing bas-relief of sand "The Hermits" (pictured) can stand alone, serve...
Last week the horror of the Black Hole was re-enacted in the newly independent Sudan when some 300 rioting Sudanese farmers on strike at a cotton project on the White Nile were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only...
...from Italy to Germany for treatment. Air Force instructors trained Brazilian pilots in the use of jet fighters. Air Defense Command officers at Colorado Springs, Colo, attended a class in public speaking (explains ADC Commanding General Earle Partridge: "One of our generals went to Washington last week on a project involving $80 million. He had 15 minutes to make his pitch to the Pentagon. I want to be sure that he knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy...
...summary of original experimentation at M.I.T., unless presented as a project report, cannot hope to rise above the superficial, but at least it can point to the tremendous comlexity and significance of the Institute's research program...