Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torture & Triumph. The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed out by the most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...meantime, however, the organization intends to conduct an extensive "Presidential preference poll" in the Cambridge area. Another project of the Harvard Students for Rockefeller is to write a synopsis of Rockefeller principles from a study of the Rockefeller Reports, last year's campaign speeches, and the Governor's legislative program...
...addition to persons interested in the city, most panels will include the project's planner, a representative of the financing agency, and a GSD faculty member. Representatives of two rival plans will participate in the Washington Square discussion...
...first time this year, conference members will consider specific case studies. Six panels each will analyze a city project on Friday and will report their findings to Saturday's general meeting for discussion by students, faculty members, and alumni...
Members of the City Council were advised yesterday by the Redevelopment Authority that Cambridge stands to lose $4,980,000 in Federal aid for the project unless workable plans are submitted by Oct. 4. But the Federal government has also cut off planning funds until the belt route is settled...