Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope to extend their new relationship into all phases of Middle Eastern life. Said he: "Soviet foreign policy ... is to develop relations ... in political, economic and cultural fields." Solod confirmed reports that Russia had offered to build Egypt's High Dam, Premier Nasser's No. 1 economic project, and added that already "scientific missions, archaeologists, people of agriculture and so on" were on their way from Russia to Eygpt...
...says AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, although he has repeatedly upheld its legality. Strauss's point: there may be a "conflict of interest" because Investment Banker Adolph Wenzell served simultaneously as a consultant to the Government and an executive of the First Boston Corp., which helped in the project's financing. Possible loss to Dixon-Yates, if the contract is declared illegal: some $3,000,000 spent on preliminary work at the West Memphis, Ark. power-plant site...
Later, however, when Miss Taunton contracted to write the thesis, she came to Widener to discuss the project, and remarked that students sometimes tell her they "don't want to see the thesis in any stage except the final copy." For these complete jobs, the thesis-writer said, the charge is still only $20 for 20,000 words (about 60 Pages...
This plot has at least the skeleton of an excellent musical comedy. Had an experienced editor taken hold of the project, the results might have been more palatable. But apparently no one did, and Mr. Blitzstein's creation remains a confusing hodge-podge of unsatisfying songs and dances. He seems almost wholly innocent of a sense of logical progression from scene to scene. One somehow has the feeling that in the last act, the scenery should disappear, and a narrator, or perhaps the author himself, should emerge to tell the audience exactly what the noise is all about...
Upton was a leading organizer of a resolution to the Administration opposing the project, which at first drew nearly 100 percent support in the neighborhood. The resolution was drafted and sent to Harvard Hall immediately after the Administration proposal was introduced at a special meeting of local residents in Hunt Hall...