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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solid-fuel rocket is like the monoplane in the early years of aviation. Biplanes were then the established type. They were easy to build because their double wings, braced by crisscrossed wire and struts, strengthened each other. But they were inefficient aerodynamically, and they had to be fooled with continually to keep their complex structure in proper order. The single wings of monoplanes were hard to make strong enough, but everyone knew that when they could be built, their efficiency and simplicity would make them dominant...
Other libraries, such as the Radcliffe Library, already use a system of this type with great success. After a decade of generally successful operation, Lamont and its policies should be examined--and one of the most fruitful changes could come in the reserve system...
...presently organized, the group is not, Latham emphasized, a high-pressure type campaign committee for Kennedy. Members at this time include Republicans and non-Kennedy-for-President Democrats, as well as Kennedy supporters...
...captures the bomb, its inventor (David Kasoff) and his daughter (Jean Seberg), four policemen and a blustery, obtuse General. Unfortunately, the real bomb in the film is Miss Seberg, who though fetching, cannot act--even when one concedes that her part is largely a spoof on the Hollywood heroine type. After losing his heart to Miss Seberg and his insides to the Atlantic, Bascomb returns to Grand Fenwick as unwelcome victor...
Bottles in the Buttery. For prestige, each college will have its own tower. For conviviality, each will come equipped with cellar-type butteries around whose round oak tables students and masters can gather. "It is hoped," Saarinen added, "that television will be kept out of these rooms, so that they become centers of conversation and discussion rather than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria...