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...scientists, students, and photographers, left Logan Airport around 6 a.m. The University group flew in a DC-6 provided by Northeast Airlines; Dean Bundy, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, head of the Department of Astronomy and Donald H. Menzel, Director of the University Observatory, headed the Harvard contingent in its expedition upward...
Under the personnel ranking system "teachers" are classified as inexperienced or experienced. The former may have one potential to move upward in the pedagocial hierarchy the latter are usually considered as satisfactory filling their present hole to the best of their "modest, but adequate ability...
There was another villain in the Deadwood legend: fire. Any flicker of flame in the bottom of the valley would feed upward to the houses above. And every Deadwood youngster knew that the gulch was a natural chimney when forest fires swept through the adjacent piny hills. A fire starting in a bakery charred Deadwood in 1879. The town was rebuilt with a water barrel on every roof, survived three big fires in 1951-52. Last week, for 24 hours, Deadwood (pop. 4,000) broiled under the windswept fingers of a forest fire that threatened to cook it once...
...secret: a series of steel-and-plastic "tree units," which look like beach umbrellas with canopies curving upward instead of down. Bolted together, they form ceilings and roof; supporting pipe columns carry the load. By simply adding or subtracting tree units, the school can be expanded as the community's needs change -or moved to a new site...
Economic slowdowns from one cause or another are inevitable, says Economist Paarlberg. They are the price of economic progress. The economy does not grow in a smooth upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks off the pace, another segment begins to pick up speed. For these reasons, many economists believe that any future downturns are bound to be milder and briefer than in the past. Furthermore, the economy's built-in stabilizers are becoming steadily more effective. Unemployment funds and pension plans...