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NEW NAME, NEW HOME, NEW RESPONSIBILITIES 92.—The turning of the sod. A. Maj. Gen. George E. Armstrong wields the ceremonial spade.

because of the in-built flexibility of its plan, a feature for which Colonel Vorder Bruegge was in a large degree responsible.

The building is essentially a grouping together of units of space, in a repetitive modular arrangement under which advance preparation was made for the quick, easy, and inexpensive rearrangement of partitions between units. The module of space which was to determine the overall size was taken to be 11 by 20 feet for a laboratory unit in the central core of the building, and 11 by