Word: northrop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, it could now zero in on large, untapped financial sources in Saint Paul and other Minnesota communities. Under Polish Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who had been programming an imaginative spectrum of Western music, the orchestra began presenting school concerts all over the state, lowering student-ticket prices at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis to $1. When it became apparent that new audiences were being reached, donations from previously untapped sources began to pour in. As of last week, the Minnesota Orchestra had nearly reached its $10 million goal...
...Northrop Corp...
...Daniel Berngan was allowed to go free on bail. But not Philip. At the time of the Catonsville caper, he was already awaiting sentence for raiding Baltimore's central draft board and pouring blood on its files. As a "possible danger to the community," U.S. District Judge Edward Northrop ordered him held without bail m the Baltimore County Jail He also sentenced him to six years in a federal prison for the earlier raid. The Berrigans took the judgment in stride. "Maybe one way of getting free these days is going to jail," said Daniel. Added Philip: "Our church...
...Supersonic planes produce the same kind of pressure wave but actually outrace it, causing the air molecules to pile up. This effect, says Cahn, "produces a shock wave like cars slamming into each other on the freeway." To eliminate or reduce the booms caused by these shock waves, the Northrop scientists decided, SSTs would have to be provided with an artificial forward-moving "pressure wave" that they could not outrace...
...economical. But he points out that there would be less drag or air friction on a charged SST, reducing the power necessary to fly it at a given speed and altitude. He suggests that only further tests with larger models and wind tunnels-now being considered by Northrop, Boeing and NASA-can determine if the system is practical...