Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the telescope construction will be done in Cambridge, according to Whitney. He emphasized, however, that the project has not received final approval from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, although there is every expectation that it will be approved...
Considering Dr. Conant's intellectual record, as chemist, as Harvard President, as advisor to the Manhattan Project, and finally as diplomat, it is perhaps surprising that his recommendations should be more practical than those of a professional man of affairs such as Admiral Rickover. Unfortunately, the builder of the atomic submarine seems to have thought more about the demands which reality places upon America than about the equipment with which we must meet this crisis. He sees very clearly that we are at the brink of disaster, that the Sputnik was not merely a fluke, and that unless a revolution...
Doctors from the Medical School and M.I.T. have succeeded for the first time in chilling an animal's heart below the freezing point in such a way that it resumed beating when warmed and placed in the body of another animal. The successful project may be the first step leading to "banks" of human organs similar to "blood banks...
Although the heart eventually ceased functioning, the project was a success in that it showed that lowering the freezing point of organs even further might allow them to be kept almost indefinitely, according to Dr. Samuel W. Jacob, instructor in Surgery and part of the research team. If a way to transplant tissues permanently is discovered this finding will be invaluable...
Since the Charles River Basin and the riverbanks have been developed, with the expenditure of millions of dollars, as a sailing and general recreation area, it would be less than foresighted of the State, the MDC or the City to allow the destruction of this civic asset for a project of a questionable nature. There is still undeveloped land in Cambridge--the Rogers Block, first of the city's Urban redevelopment areas awaits an industrial developer...