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...musical goals are both grand and serious. The Ring will become a summertime staple of what is being called as of this season the "Pacific Northwest Festival." The legislature has already appropriated $100,000 to lay the groundwork for a new summer-festival center. Ross hopes for a 1978 opening. Ever practical, he explains: "Our first three years were aimed at survival. Then came a period when we were out for national attention. Now I believe we occupy an important position hi the international firmament of festivals." That...
...from the Afro-American Studies Department was denied. Although it was earlier recommended that the chair-person of the Afro-American Studies Department serve as a director of the Institute (p. 18, Report of the Faculty. Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, Jan 20, 1969.) This lay the groundwork for the exclusion of students and Afro-American Studies Department faculty from the planning process. In fact, these groups were excluded when President Bok appointed the DuBois Institute Advisory Board in September...
Died. John B. McKay, 52, steel-nerved NASA test pilot, whose flights on the experimental X-15 rocket plane in the early 1960s helped lay the groundwork for later Mercury and Apollo space programs; of complications of injuries suffered in 1962, when his X-15 crash-landed so severely that he lost an inch of height as his spine compressed on impact; in Lancaster, Calif...
...department will train students to take positions in the nuclear engineering industry following graduation and provide the academic groundwork for graduate study in the field. Kent F. Hansen, professor of nuclear engineering at MIT and acting head of the department, said yesterday...
...invitation to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela and Algeria to represent OPEC at a preliminary meeting in Paris on April 7. They will sit down with representatives of the U.S., Japan and the Common Market countries, along with delegates from Brazil, India and Zaire. The April meeting will lay the groundwork for a full-dress conference between oil producers, industrial nations and Third World countries later...