Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change began during World War II. With its long record of achievement in the natural sciences, Cambridge found itself taking on every sort of wartime research project that the government and industry wanted. Peace brought no relief. The atom and the cold war made even heavier demands on technical and scientific research. Alongside Cambridge's 21 tradition-bound colleges, new shiny laboratories sprang up, and an army of efficient, white-coated researchers invaded the ancient city. Most of them did not seem to care one whit for college traditions. Of the ten new departments founded since the war, seven...
Ideas and Plans. Coggeshall's agenda for HEW include getting some money from voluntary health organizations (e.g., the American Cancer Society. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) for improving medical schools. But his most interesting project is a revolutionary plan for American hospitals. As Coggeshall sees it, there are two kinds of hospital patients: the seriously ill, who need all the services that a hospital can afford, and those who are in for less serious ailments or mere diagnosis. But, he points out, most modern hospital rooms are designed for the first type. They are rigged for all kinds...
Guided by Weather Bureau scientists, every Government agency that can take a hand is planning to help the National Hurricane Research Project. From Trinidad to Florida, 27 stations will launch weather balloons and record the radio reports on the weather they pass through. The Air Force will send flying laboratories into each hurricane. B50 bombers will take care of altitudes from 1,000 to 25,000 ft., and a B-47 jet-bomber crew will make runs between 30,000 and 45,000 ft. All the planes will bristle with instruments to measure everything from the temperature to electrical conditions...
Fine Structure. The purpose of all this effort, says Meteorologist Robert H. Simpson, the Weather Bureau's head of the project, is to get a line on the "fine structure" of hurricanes, to learn where they get their energy and how they use it in building up destructive force...
...expressionist formula. The variety of the paintings shown here-from De Kooning's gustiness to Guston's coolness-is in itself a strong indication of the movement's vitality. And even the uncaring observer will somehow prefer one picture lo another, which proves that they do project certain qualities-whether ugly or beautiful. None is a mere nothing...