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...headquarters for the world-wide satellite optical tracking program Smithsonian attracted a great concentration of top scientists and mathematicians to its scattered facilities on Garden Street. Its growth has been so phenomenal that plans have been made by the University to construct and rent to Smithsonian a large center on Observatory Hill. The Harvard College Observatory itself has more personnel engaged in IGY work than any astronomical observatory in the country. The Observatory, with its special stations in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, is the greatest single producer of solar data, vital to IGY research in solar-terrestrial phenomena, such...
...Plan is still just an imaginative report, and its chances of reaching the brick-and-mortar stage are uncertain. When the Report was released in December, one optimistic committee member offered "even money--not much money, but even money," that they will raise the $5 to $20 million to construct the physical plant. But most foundations, while happy to finance reports and studies, decline to pay for buildings. If New College is to succeed, it will require an unprecedented loan, or a substantial gift from a benefactor who recognizes the educational advances the Plan represents...
Eventually the Art Center plans to construct a grand opera hall, seating 3800, which will be capable of supporting the Metropolitan Opera for a two week season...
...scheme calls for the Commonwealth to lease the land to MeBAC and to construct foundations for a theatre (an expenditure of some $200,000). This theatre, as well as a projected center for visual arts and opera house, would then be run by MeBAC and the original debt to the Commonwealth paid off, hopefully, by box office receipts...
...testing fuel and materials for future power reactors. It is building the largest U.S. all-nuclear power station (cost: more than $45 million) at Dresden, Ohio for Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and a $19.5 million reactor at Eureka, Calif, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has been selected to construct nuclear power stations in Switzerland, West Germany and Italy...