Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three new Houses--including Quincy--stand "at the top of the list of building objectives" in the Program, and presumably this additional space will be used to relieve overcrowding. Quincy will open next Fall, the Leverett Towers a year later, followed by two more Houses in the near future. Extensive deconversion, it is thought, cannot be far behind...
Dean Bender replies, however, that any such increase would cause serious difficulties in Lamont, the I.A.B., classroom space, and other central facilities, even if the individual Houses are not crowded...
Perkins also proposed that returning alumni be lodged, so far as is feasible, in their undergraduate Houses. Shultz termed this "a very nice idea," but thought it would prove difficult. "Only a limited amount of space is available in the Houses," he said...
...part of the Soviet Union on Friday. When the Russians made their first announcement, they could already say with confidence that the final stage had attained escape velocity. On Saturday they could announce that at 9:59 p.m. E.S.T. Lunik had passed the moon and plunged on into outer space on an orbit around the sun. At week's end it was 318,000 miles from the earth and still going strong...
Alco Products (1957 sales: $160,628,000) is constructing the nuclear system for a 1700-kw. power and space heat reactor for the Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Greely, Alaska, has $9,000,000 in contracts for several nuclear reactor systems and for research and components...