Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scope of BMEWS is rated by Air Force men as "something fantastic." While construction work by Army engineers goes on at Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth...
There seemed to be general agreement, however, that observers would be sent to this summer's NSA Congress and that Council members should continue to study in detail the scope and structure of the organization. Despite this feeling, it was evident from the tone of the discussion that the misgivings about NSA which led to last Fall's decision to withdraw were still present in the minds of most Council members...
Much of the performance's distinction came from the conductor, Elliott Forbes, who seemed in control of every moment. His largeness of conception, together with a scrupulous attention to shaping detail proved equal to the difficult combination of subtlety and scope that this work presents...
...middle-sized ones. Its story--about a second-rate theatrical company whose indolent rehearsal of a lousy play is suddenly and spookily interrupted by six intense black-clad figures, claiming to be characters from an unfinished "tragedy" and demanding that the company dramatize their miserable history--this story gives scope for a series of light satirical sketches of theatrical types and for another series of heavy dramatic performances, and it practically demands a considerable degree of virtuosity in a director...
...wide inter-disciplinary scope of the new Harvard-M.I.T. Center for Urban Studies was outlined yesterday by Martin Meyerson, Director of the new Center, in announcing the composition of a joint Faculty Committee to set policy...