Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken up by non-resident tutors' offices and upperclassmen moving out of Wiggles-worth and perhaps out of Claverly, to make room for freshmen and to eliminate forced commuters...
John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot said last night that he had requested greater office space for non-resident tutors, and the enlarging of some rooms for middle aged Faculty members. He also wishes to move the steam tables out of the Eliot dining room, and create more space in the House office...
...detailed description of the belt of lethal radiation that swathes the earth was given last week by Dr. James A. Van Allen of the State University of Iowa. Often called the "Van Allen radiation," the belt was discovered by the instruments that the Army's satellites carried into space...
...Allen did not say so, but his diagram points out clearly that a cone-shaped area over the magnetic poles is almost radiation-free. Obvious conclusion: the space ports of the future may have to be in far northern Canada or Antarctica, where men can soar into space through the escape zones over the magnetic poles, thus eluding the lethal hazards of the Van Allen belt...
...foot-long, 13-pound nose cone was tracked to a height of 66,654 miles before the force of the earth's gravity whisked it back from its probe of outer space...