Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become aware that he runs something called the Western Development Division, a $3 billion Air Force project for developing, testing and possibly operating the H-bomb-carrying, 5,000-mile ICBM. Consequently, the experts took notice last week when Ben Schriever made a progress report to a hard-boiled symposium of astronautics scientists in San Diego (see SCIENCE). The report: since 1954, when the U.S. stepped up its ICBM program, it has come such a "long way in the development of space technology" that the conquest of outer space appears right around the corner-and that corner must soon...
Last week some 500 scientists, encouraged by this growing fund of information, gathered in San Diego at a symposium held by the Air Force and Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. to talk in down-to-earth terms about the practical problems of converting space theory into space hardware. Much of the conference was classified, but two projects, openly described, show how science is simulating space conditions on earth...
...symposium, March 18, at 8 p.m., and the concert, March 17 at 8:30 p.m., will both be open to the public. There will also be a formal dance and House dinner for House members only...
Speakers at the symposium will be James B. Reston, Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, and Walt Whitman Rostow, professor of Economic History at M.I.T. It will be moderated by Mark De Wolf Howe '28, professor...
Leverett House will mark its 25th anniversary with a four-day celebration March 16 through 19. The program will include a symposium on "The University and the Public Life," and a concert by the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, conducted by Daniel R. Pinkham...