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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative system ("radio inertial") uses a similar instrument in the missile, but readings that show the missile's behavior are sent back to the launching site by radio waves. Then a computer on the ground tells the missile, also by radio, what to do. Each system has its advantages. Radio inertial guidance, for instance, keeps the computer on the ground, where it can be as big and heavy as necessary. Pure inertial guidance, on the other hand, is self-contained and unaffected by radio interference or enemy jamming...
Just west of Littauer, off to the side of what is perhaps the most grossly disfigured parcel of Harvard's real estate, stands a gravestone with obscure and uninformative markings. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the house whose site the stone marks, no doubt would have rescued his birthplace from such funereal treatment with another epic, but, as it was, all he got around to was a written gabfest at his breakfast table...
...great happiness to have been born in an old house," he wrote in 1871, when already there had been 140 years to fill it "with harmless ghosts walking in the corridors." A house had stood on the same site since the founding of Cambridge in the 1630s, but he was referring to the "Gambrel-roofed house" built in 1730, barely four years after Wadsworth House, which (if you ignore the latter's brick bustle) it exactly resembled. The house was privately owned until 1871, but its close ties to the University began with the moving in of Jonathan Hastings...
York's Daily News), analyses of Grace's wardrobe, even recipes for Monegasque specialties. Date, site and other arrangements for the marriage were not even settled, but the bride's mother, Mrs. John...
Tenley E. Albright '57, American woman's figure skating champion, left Logan Airport for New York City last night to join the U.S. Olympic team which flies today for Cortine D' Ampezzo, Italy, the site of the 1956 winter Olympic Games...