Word: bigelow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only two dimensions by the safety poster. His mother, hanging out the clothes, doubtless regards her headstrong son with mixed emotions...
Albert Smith Bigelow, former Housing Commissioner of Massachusetts, will act as narrator of the touring play Which Way the Wind?, to be presented at New England Mutual Hall tonight and tomorrow...
...Bigelow, a 1931 graduate of the School of Architecture, is known for his attempted voyage in the ketch "Golden Rule" into the Pacific nuclear test area in a protest against bomb testing...
Report for $3,000,000. Iselin's demonstration that the little Chance (length, 72 ft.; displacement, 37 tons) could do serious scientific work was useful to Professor Bigelow, who was writing a report on oceanography for the National Academy of Sciences. Relieved to find that very large yearly sums for big vessels were not necessary, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Bigelow $3,000,000 to outfit and endow an oceanographic institute. Bigelow set up his institute in Woods Hole-a small town on a narrow strait ("The Hole") connecting Buzzards Bay with Vineyard Sound. The ocean is always a presence...
Iselin helped Bigelow plan the Atlantis, which is still the only U.S. vessel to be designed as an oceanographic ship. The Atlantis was built in Copenhagen, and Iselin sailed her back to Woods Hole as her first skipper...