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...facing each other with explosive hate. If war broke out there, "the fat would be in the fire." Burma, he found, lived in fear of what could happen on her frontier zone. Siam (see cover), with 3,000,000 Chinese, was "more like a willow than an oak...
...former resident of Tennessee, a stanch Harvard man, and a devoted follower of the CRIMSON, I feel obliged to point out that Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was never inhabited by "mountain music and residents," as your article on Oak Ridge, Massachusetts, of March 20 declares. Until the Manhattan Project suddenly appeared in the middle of World War II, the area now known as Oak Ridge was a pleasant and sparsely inhabited valley. On a nearby ridge there grew a mighty oak. Thus, when the Army had time to pause amid its mighty atomic labors, it decided to name the Project construction...
Long before its Tennessee twin was familiar to anyone save connoisseurs of mountain music and residents, Oak Ridge in Massachusetts was a well-known place. for there, on a hill overlooking the town of Harvard, stands the biggest of the University's chain of Observatories, boasting the largest reflector telescope cast of the Mississippi River. Begun in 1932, the station now has 13 buildings, centered in a 50-acre tract, and instruments ranging in size from the "patrol cameras" to the giant 61-inch reflector...
This huge telescope is housed in the largest building at Oak Ridge, a dome-shaped shell with rotating walls. Electric power, stepped up by generators, operates the instrument and moves the walls along their built in track. Since all the operations can be directed by a set of pushbuttons attached to a lengthy cable, a single person can control all the machinery, including the moving observer scaffold, from anywhere in the room. Two or three times a year, the 1600-pound lens gets a cleaning, and is re-silvered. Because of its size it cannot be aluminum coated--there...
...station is higher than much of the surrounding countryside, and is protected from cold and wind only by the many birch and pine trees on the tract. Russel Anderson, superintendent of the station, points out that, without these trees, Oak Ridge would not be suitable for the Observatory...