Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right away. The jet age has come so fast that the U.S. is unprepared for it in many ways. Long ignored by indifferent Congresses, airway control and airport modernization are lagging badly. Only 14 U.S. airports are now ready to handle jets. Complete air control is still a paper project-though enough may be done by January to keep American's transcontinental jets under radar surveillance across the U.S. But most of the changes are inevitable, simply because the jet age demands them...
Four Harvard professors will serve as consultants to evaluate American scholarship in the humanities, it was announced yesterday. Sponsored by Princeton University, the four-year project will be aided by a $335,000 grant from the Ford Foundation...
...group is now organized, Goldberg keeps track of the HUT's as much as possible in his capacity of volunteer manager. Some of the noticeable vagueness is there on purpose, since a great organizational structure would freeze the group and hamper the project's flexibility. The group needs a paid manager, however, to maintain regular channels among the schools, the University, and the officers. The HUT backers are looking for someone familiar with "school politics" who would act as liason between schools' needs and the academic and social obligations of undergraduates. If the HUT can find a student interested...
...some schools the success of the program depends on one interested person, and if that person moves away, as a member of the Lexington system did, that school has no hesitation about pulling out of the project. Cambridge, the most logical place for the HUT, has shown no interest so far, but Herzog hopes as the project gains stature Cambridge will become involved. Cambridge schools, significantly, have not accepted apprentice teachers from the MAT program at the Graduate School of Education either...
First Aid, Cold Bath. But Mary Grey-Eyes was not to be sung over. Next day she was worse, and the family decided there might be stronger medicine more promptly available five miles away at the Navajo-Cornell Field Health Research Project's clinic. For first aid they performed a hóchxó'iji to ward off evil. This included a cold bath in the open air, after which the patient understandably felt worse. Then they took her to the clinic...