Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier and in our opinion certainly as decisive in bringing about the meetings. I willingly credited Walter Cronkite with a fantastic presentation and his usual high standard of journalism. I at no time accused him of trying to take credit. I said it was uncharacteristic of CBS News to project itself into a story by claiming credit for not only the interviews but also for bringing the historic meeting about...
...Pilot project for cattle waste
Natural gas is a critically scarce fuel in the U.S.-but there is no detectable shortage of cow manure. A howling non sequitur? Not to the U.S. Department of Energy. It has granted $938,000 for a pilot project to turn cattle waste into methane, a form of natural...
...stack of documents released last week by the FBI on the Kennedy assassination is dramatic testimony to the effort needed to comply with requests under the act. Some 280 FBI agents were called in from the field this summer for "Operation Onslaught," as the project was called. In addition, 379 people are employed full time at FBI headquarters researching 16,000 similar appeals a year. Estimated cost to this one Government agency in 1977: $9 million...
Twentieth century art has been rich in didactic rooms, in which an artist set forth to construct an exemplary environment: Lissitzky's Proun Room, Van Doesburg's project for a university hall, Schwitters' Merzbau, Kandinsky's music room, and so on. Nevelson's palace is of their company. Yet its motives are not didactic; they are closer to folk art, to the "ideal palace" made from junk by the French postman Cheval from 1879 to 1912, or the Watts Towers built by Simon Rodia in Los Angeles. Collection, repetition, unification: these are the elements...