Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Hynek, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, placed the blame for the loss principally on the Air Force's failure to notify the observatory--headquarters for the moonwatch project--in time to alert the Moonwatch teams to search for the satellite visually. Other sources placed the blame for the secrecy that had surrounded the launching on "unfortunate interservice rivalries...
...tape recorders and jazz concerts--it is time to count up the wins and losses. An annual allowance of $2500 to each Master leaves little rom for fumbles. Unfortunately, these scarce funds have paid for such capital improvements as House seminar rooms, and in one House such a project consumed half the grant for two successive years. In general, the Ford money should not be invested in brick and mortar...
Starting with a modest budget, little equipment, and no experience, Satyajit Ray has proceduced an imaginative and technically impressive film. Encouraged by the success of Pather Panchali, he is expanding his theme into a trilogy. If the others are as good, the project will become a classic...
...expenses began to pile up after a year of shooting, Satyajit Ray persuaded the West Bengali government to sponsor his project, as a sort of regional advertising. A year and a half later, on a budget that never reached $ 40,000, Pather Panchali was ready to show. In international film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco, it has since won five grand prizes...
Last week he was once again proving this in his most ambitious project: Salton City, 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. By the desert's curious standards, Salton City is something of a bargain. Though the summer heat is high (up to 125° F.) and the land is low (234 ft. below sea level), there is water and there is a major highway (U.S. 99). By car and plane, buyers hustled to the sun-struck sands and low-lying, spiny, green clumps of greasewood along the shores of 30-mile-long Salton Sea. There they plunked down...