Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational policy makers and the American public are willing to accept as "higher education" classes of 100 or more, in which the hallowed "two-way togetherness or communication" is nonexistent, then President Martin is correct in his experimentation. How much better would it be if those hypercritical educational associations cited in TIME were to get behind this project rather than spending their time throwing up roadblocks against what no doubt many of their members feel is a potential threat to pedagogic job security...
Anastas Mikoyan radiated respectability. He glowed good will to all men (see below). He probed his duly relaxed U.S. audiences to determine resistance to precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...
...HUNGARIAN REVOLT was instigated by "American agents," and Russia was actually invited in to mash it by the Hungarians themselves...
...talks with U.S. businessmen that Mikoyan worked hardest to sell his theme. Weaving wit with bluntness that sometimes bordered on confession ("Solomon would probably split the blame for the cold war down the mid dle"), he entranced his listeners. He heaped praise on American business, chirped, with a twinkle, that Ford and General Motors enjoy just the same kind of peaceful coexistence that Russia wants with...
...time after Sputnik I, the U.S. has put five satellites into orbit (Explorers I, III and IV, Vanguard, Atlas); fired two near-miss lunar probes (Pioneers I and III); started on an array of other satellite or space-probe projects; let development contracts with the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Inc. for space-rocket engines with thrusts of 1,000,000 lbs. or more; pushed a man-in-space undertaking, Project Mercury, that is scheduled for announcement this month. But despite the flurry of projects, the U.S. has made disappointingly little progress toward deciding on large, long-range space...