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Leslie Silverman, professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene, and Melvin W. First, associate professor of Applied Industrial Hygiene, have asked Washington for $350,000 to put their ideas into practice. They expect the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency to grant the funds before January, and a pilot incinerator vessel to be in operation...
...Harvard students will help sail Endeavour I, a famous British racing schooner, from England to the United States next June. The vessel will be the first ship in the marine museum to be established at Newport...
Harvard men will comprise more than half the crew of 12 bringing Endeavour to this country. Besides Millar and five other members of the Harvard Yacht Club, Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr. '40, the University's Environmental Health and Safety Officer, will aid in handling the vessel...
...engine room. An explosion sent passengers into panic, and since there were no lifeboats, only the timely arrival of rescuers prevented tragedy. When rescued, Builder Kerstholt burst into tears. Also upset, though not visibly tearful, was Rainier, who angrily bemoaned a two-month delay before the damaged vessel could be ready for her maiden voyage to the Mediterranean...
...Dome. Even the dousing fluid will be safely confined, for the whole works will be housed in a vast domed vessel 182 ft. high and 165 ft. in diameter, with inner walls made of two layers of steel one-quarter inch thick separated by 2 ft. of porous concrete. Pumps will draw from the concrete any radioactive gas that seeps into it. And outside all this will be 5½ ft. of concrete strongly reinforced with a network of steel bars. The great dome will be strong enough, say Con Ed engineers, to hold the most violent explosion that could...