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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in Tha Pra, Alex Johnson has introduced the country's first silage system, taught sanitation, farm management, building construction and irrigation, brought high-yield corn (50 bu. per acre) from Indonesia, improved pasture and foliage, showed his charges how to use commercial fertilizer, planted grain and sweet sorghum, introduced the Velvet bean and the cowpea (for soil improvement). In his own acre-plus garden he demonstrated to once dubious Thailanders that pineapples and bananas can be grown well in poor soil, even cultivated tomatoes, collards, okra, eggplant, yellow squash, sweet corn and lettuce...
Orbit to Orbit. Once free from the earth, the space sailer would fall into a solar orbit, use sunlight to waft it almost anywhere in the solar system. For such maneuvering it would need a way to change its sail's angle to the sunlight; Dr. Cotter believes that this can be done by gyroscopic devices that act in response to radio signals from the earth. With its sail broadside to the light, it will be pushed farther and farther from the sun in wider and wider orbits. Eventually it will reach the orbits of Mars or the outer...
Speaking at the Planning Board's public hearing on the proposed amendment, Whitlock pointed out that "the University has decided to build high wherever feasible," and asserted that if adopted in its present form the new ordinance might prevent this "intense use" of Harvard's property...
...Crimson is definitely going to have to improve its quality of swimming and regain the use of its injured men before it can hope to do well in the league. Though the varsity beat a strong Army team by a substantial margin, all the finishes were extremely close and could have easily gone the other way. This victory over M.I.T. should not convince anyone, including the team, that future victories are assured...
Nevertheless, Brooks stated that "I do feel we can take them." Fresh from an impressive win over Army last week, the Crimson will use essentially the same team that it started against the Cadets. Brooks mentioned the possibility of switching sophomore spinter Bruce Hunter from his normal 50 and 100-yard freestyle position to anchor man on both the medley and freestyle relays...