Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Books off the Shelf. For the bedeviled director of the fair, Harold Chadick McClellan, a wealthy California manufacturer (paints and chemicals), former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, the project was one unmitigated migraine. On top of his breakneck schedule and a niggardly allowance ($3,600,000) from Washington, he met daily opposition from all sides. The Kremlin vetoed the plan to distribute free Coty lipsticks. President Eisenhower's doubts about the top-heavily modern art show (TIME, July 13) prompted some changes. The Russians haggled like capitalistic stockbrokers over the rent...
...SPACE will be tracked by worldwide communications network to be managed by Western Electric Co. under $25 million U.S. contract. Part of Project Mercury, network is due to be finished in 1960, will monitor satellite's equipment, maintain contact with astronaut...
...Seek amendment in Congress of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act to permit British and French control of small tactical nuclear weapons, including missile warheads; the project will be brought up before President Eisenhower and the National Security Council shortly...
Everyone concerned had worked zealously and overtime on this exciting community project. And the mounting of any show on schedule would have been an impressive achievement. But the fact that the opening performance provided a highly engrossing evening calls for a hearty "Bravo." This is not to say that the performance was perfect; the show was somewhat uneven, the cast had not been able yet to gauge the acoustics of the strange structure with a full audience in it, and much of the lighting was insecure. But it was far superior to what one could have expected under the circumstances...
...first companies to utilize the area's resident brainpower is now big, well-known and a darling of Wall Street: Polaroid. Edwin Herbert Land, 50, the founder-president who left Harvard to work on his first polarized light project in 1926 and later invented the Polaroid Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly...