Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architect Kirk was eager to tackle their problem. A childhood victim of polio, he had long since come to the conclusion that "architecture can be medicine, or at least part of the therapy." His answer is a long, low, $112,000 clinic building that bears no resemblance to standard medical surroundings. Patients arriving for their 50-minute hours last week were ushered through the Oregon-basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks...
...PACKARD CLIPPER, out this week in two body styles, will have supercharged 275-h.p. Studebaker engine and automatic transmission as standard equipment. First Packard station wagon since 1950 is listed at $3,093, and four-door sedan...
...recognition was long overdue. Catini, little known in the U.S., is a whopper of a corporation by any standard. It is Italy's No. 2 corporation (after Fiat), and one of the world's top ten chemical firms. It has 60.000 employees. 167 plants and mines, 60 subsidiaries. 200,000 stockholders, assets of more than $600 million. From the Alps to Sicily, it straddles Italy's economy, producing 57% of the .country's aluminum (35,000 tons), 89% of its pyrites (1,200,000 tons), 80% of its bauxite, 64% of its phosphates, the majority...
...present academic requirements for the Harvard student should undergo a "fresh appraisal," according to President Pusey, "for the present generation is proving that the College standard has been...
...five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which is too low for the present generation of students...