Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy records for pilots with certain specifications. Among them: a university degree in the physical sciences or engineering, completion of military test-pilot training, a minimum of 1,500 logged hours of flight time, age less than 40, maximum height 5 ft. 11 in., superb physical condition, and physical and psychological attributes suited for space flight. Last week Keith Glennan, boss of the National Aeronautics...
Communism is moving ahead on all fronts and will win a "complete and final victory" throughout the world, boasted Nikita Khrushchev last week. This cock-a-doodle-doo reflected his own characteristic buoyancy, as well as the pseudo-scientific Communist theory of inevitability. But the facts of world politics, A.D. 1959, make no such reflection...
...dangerously threatened by a Communist Party that is the largest in Asia outside of Red China. But the personal magnetism of Sukarno, the political leadership of Premier Djuanda, and the surprisingly competent and anti-Communist army under General Haris Nasution have so far kept the nation a full step ahead of anarchy...
Snow Fever. Resort owners are convinced that the boom is still young, and are pushing ahead with expansion plans, undismayed by the uncertainties inherent in snow itself-not enough of it in the East, where slopes must be closely tended to preserve what falls, often too much of it in the West, where gun crews must shoot down avalanches to ensure safety and jumbo storms can seal off an area for days. Vermont's Mt. Snow opened the first outdoor swimming pool at an Eastern ski resort. California's plush new $1,750,000 inn at Mammoth Mountain...
...from the start. Cushing allowed Poulsen to reserve 42 acres of land for homesites, found belatedly that Squaw Valley Development Corp. was left with only six acres of level ground. Cushing wanted to operate restaurant, bar and lodging facilities at Squaw. Poulsen wanted to lease them out. Cushing went ahead anyway, bought a set of old Air Force barracks, had them trucked into the valley, put the corporation in the hotel business...