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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifle range is thus a necessity. One might assume that the University, blessed with so many buildings, could with no trouble make available space large enough to fit the requirements of a new site, an area fifty-five by seventy feet (the dimensions of a ten place range) has proved a great problem. The best answer so far is the basement of the House Squash Courts building, the stucco excrescence surrounded by Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and the IAB. There is sufficient room there for a ten or twelve place range, and the concrete walls are strong enough to withstand...
...place might have looked like a native collection of huts-except that U.S. air maps showed no village on the site, certainly not one that covered four square miles. Actually it was a big Communist supply dump, 30 miles northwest of the Panmunjom truce site. The Reds tried their best to disguise it by covering the boxes, barrels and bags with thatching that looked like roofs. A month ago, U.S. reconnaissance pilots spotted the dump for what it was. But the airmen waited while it grew into one of the lushest supply targets in North Korea...
...additional statement, filed by E. L. Chaffee, Director of the Laboratories of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, gives technical information on the clearance of "a non-commercial educational television station...to be located on Great Blue Hill, ten miles south of the center of Boston." This is the present site of WGBH's transmitting facilities...
...Atomic Energy Commission in Washington made an announcement: 200,000 acres in the Savannah River valley had been chosen for the site of a $1,180,000,000 plant to manufacture tritium and other materials of atomic war. The 6,000 residents of the area would have to leave. The deadline for Ellenton: midnight...
According to Jordan, the reasons are primarily financial. The regular graduation exercises for the Annex cost $1600. If the ceremonies were switched to the dormitory quadrangle, the proposed site, there would be an additional expense of $3000. An outdoor commencement would cost $2200 extra in the academic quad, formed by Agassiz, Longfellow, and Fay House...