Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event opened with the first public screening of "Truman: a Self Portrait," a collection of still photographs and film clips tracing Truman's childhood and political career, produced by the Smithsonian Institution for the centennial retrospective...
Scientists at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT are planning a multi-million dollar facility to transmit satellite information as part of a drive to make Cambridge a national center for astrological study...
...Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in conjunction with NASA, has begun developing an approximately $1 billion space satellite telescope--one of the nation's most significant space projects in this decade...
Other museums in the nation are bigger and richer the two most notable being the Smithsonian and New York's Museum of Natural History in New York. The Smithsonian, for example, is expanding at a rate of almost one million specimens a year and receives substantial funding subsidies fron the federal government. But for a University museum. Harvard has one of the most diverse and largest collections...
...Sierra Club was a pioneer in marketing richly illustrated calendars as wall and desk adornments. The organization expects to sell about 400,000 copies of its 1984 engagement book, which has pictures of natural vistas. Price: $7.95. Seeing the promotional value and fund-raising possibilities, other institutions, including the Smithsonian and the New York Public Library, have weighed in with artful books...