Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, Objects: USA, which originated at the Smithsonian, had to be split up in Boston because the Boston University gallery couldn't hold all 308 objects. But it's well worth the ride from Commonwealth Avenue to Arlington Street to see it all. The wooden pieces-all at the University of Massachusetts-were the ones I most coveted. Wendell Castle's "mahogany and silver leaf desk" was so curvingly sculptural. resting on an undulating snake of wood, that I didn't realize it was a desk until I read the wall label...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will rent the fourth floor of the new building. The Smithsonian and Harvard currently share the Observatory buildings...
Harvard University has loaned nearly one million dollars, to be paid back to Harvard from the money received in rent from the Smithsonian...
...what he calls "modern sculptures," whose source he proudly admits is his own extensive library of Art Deco. Done in sleek brass, they look as if they should be holding back the crowds at Radio City Music Hall. Another indication of the era's popularity is the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition of the twenties' top cartoonist, John Held...
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the center is the brainchild of Biologist Sidney Galler, who argued that scientists had not learned quickly enough of the birth of a volcanic island off Iceland in 1963. Other scientists agreed. In only 18 months, the center's cadre of voluntary observers has grown from a handful of people to more than 2,000 scientists in 120 countries. The Russians (though not the Chinese) find participation useful; last month the center flashed word of an event taking place right on the Soviet Union's Siberian doorstep: the eruption of long-dormant Kiska...