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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest report on the Harvard parking problem, recently released without comment by the Administration, contains grandiose schemes and a few specific small-scale proposals to relieve the present parking space shortage. But the long-range plans in the report seem handicapped by their cost and the minor changes cannot accommodate all the cars around the University. It can only be concluded from this report that the University cannot offer parking spaces for all student and faculty cars and that some sort of night parking must be allowed on the streets of Cambridge if the problem caused by the great influx...
Perhaps now that the U.N. has shown how ineffectual it really is in a crisis, people will stop thinking of it in terms of a Congress or a Parliament on a grander scale. As a means of exchanging ideas and ideals, it is a fine organization, but it would be far better if it were physically located in the Soviet Union, where a free exchange of this type would be a novel experience for the population. As an arbiter in maintaining law and order, the U.N. is a howling bust. Moral indignation has saved few people from a firing squad...
...rocket ship returning to the earth from man's first landing on the moon (time: "The day after some tomorrow"). The mood of the return voyage is far from jubilant, what with a loathed egomaniac in command, a succession of murders and suicides, the discovery that full-scale atomic war has broken out on earth, and the knowledge that the rocket ship itself is almost surely doomed. Playwright Oboler seems indeed to be prophesying that the atomic age may end up with man as extinct as the great...
...BOMARC MISSILE is set to go into large-scale production in spring. Planning final assembly plant for Air Force's long-range, ramjet, supersonic missile, Boeing has option on $22 million Ford Motor Co. plant at Richmond, Calif., is ready to spend $20 million to $25 million converting it, if zoning problems can be settled. Boeing also has option on large site around nearby Parks Air Force Base, may concentrate its missile output in San Francisco Bay area...
...Houses and with that event, more single rooms, it is unfortunate that the Masters have decided to slam the doors now. When the right to leave the House was left to the discretion of the individual Senior Tutor, who knew the case best, there was, even then, no large scale exodus. The Senior Tutors have the best interests of the House as well as the student in mind and, moreover, they are by virtue of their position, best qualified to judge the needs of both...