Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architectural drawings have been completed and bids opened for a million-dollar computation center to be built on Observatory Hill and leased by the University to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Fred L. Whipple, director of the Observatory, confirmed yesterday...
...project will be financed largely by rental from Smithsonian, a private company held in trust by the United States Congress. The remainder of the funds will be obtained from sources other than the Program for Harvard College, according to Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
...Hynek, who has been working with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in its Satellite-Tracking Program, was granted a leave of absence from Northwestern until September, 1960 in order to finish his work here...
...apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds can be profitable. "In the bleak, birds squeak," the Beat One interjects during a soliloquy. This specimen, with its weird vein of Gertrude Stein, should be stuffed, mounted, labeled, and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...