Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upper Level Changes...
...upper level courses, Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, will give Nat Sci 122, Organic Chemistry. Fieser explained that the course will have no prerequisites and students will attend the lectures, but not the labs, of Chemistry...
After bitter storm and snow struck much of the drought belt this month, forlorn farmers held out the bright hope that the weather cycle might have turned for good. Last week U.S. Weather Bureau long-range forecasters brightened the hope even more, reported that "recent upper-air circulation patterns are changing . . .the severe drought may not return in the coming growing season." Meaning: bigger crops, happier farmers. Probable consequences: more surpluses and plenty of new headaches for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...Navy Aerobee-Hi research rocket climbed last week to 126 miles above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Besides conventional instruments for upper-air research, it carried in its nose a precious but expendable pay load: the electronic guts of a satellite. In an aluminum can 10 in. long and 5 in. in diameter were instruments and circuitry as complicated as six TV sets...
...wide as his knowledge of international affairs. In 1947 he participated in a project sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality to test a Supreme Court decision ending segregation in interstate commerce. With an inter-racial group of 15 men, he toured the Upper South, and procured $250 in a damage suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. There were a dozen arrests in two weeks during the trip. In 1948 he was part of a CORE group which challenged discrimination in a Greyhound Bus Co. terminal in Washington, D.C. The management closed the terminal...