Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thump, Thump. The next day was Mamie's syth birthday, and the carillon in Peace Tower tinkled out Dixie and Yankee Doodle as she drove to Parliament House. In the oak-paneled, green-carpeted House of Commons, the President addressed a joint session of Parliament...
...Archbishop of Canterbury . . . need not be frightened by the doctrine of infallibility in matters of faith, although Sir Thomas More went to the Tower and the block in its 'defense. The primate is a better Christian than his lineage and many of us Catholics. We pray that his reward will be that of Newman and Chesterton. The door they opened was discovered through intellect, grace and prayer...
Such a program would be possible in the United States only if material reward were substituted for the sense of moral satisfaction the Briton gets from service to the Crown. British scientists leave the ivory tower because they feel a personal obligation. But in the country, too few top scientists are willing to exchange faculty salaries and fat industrial consultation fees for a chance to buck Washington's frustrating bureaucracy. More money spent to lure top-notch civilians into scientific administration would mean fewer costly errors and a much-strengthened system of national defense...
...winter, the program of the Harvard Athenaeum members follow their individual crafts, painting, sculpture, woodworking, and toy making. Summers, the men retreat to New Hampshire where they combine their talents on various projects. Each piece they turn out is designed as a general commodity rather than as an "ivory tower" art product. The Behn-Moore galleries, in the basement of the Brattle Theatre, will be exhibiting 400 Rockpool objects until November...
Saturday's announcement that work has started on the transmitting tower of WGBH-TV marks the beginning of educational TV for Boston. To be run by the Lowell Institute, the new station will be financed entirely by foundation grants and funds from the ten institutions that comprise the Institute's Co-operative Broadcasting Council. Among these ten at least two, Harvard and Boston University, can supply students to help run the station...