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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee restored $104 million of the cut. Even that cut was adopted apologetically as a necessary tactic to forestall deeper cuts when the bill hits the Senate floor. To prove good will, the committee even voted to let the President himself decide where the $235 million cut could best be shaved...
Boulevards & Tunnels. At best, these emergency steps seemed halfway measures, and they were. But Quesada and clamoring Congressmen knew that they are all and perhaps more than all that the obsolescent U.S. airways traffic-control system can absorb. CAA is now in the midst of a modernization program, has expanded personnel from 19.000 to 29,000 in three years, is training hundreds of new airways traffic controllers. The CAA's fiveyear, $1 billion program is due for completion in 1962-but the U.S. airways are in need of the 1962 program right...
...East European countries were summoned to the Kremlin for a big socialist camp meeting. In a general tightening-up to mesh satellite economies into Russia's forthcoming revised seven-year plan. Eastern European countries were directed to drop pet national industrial projects and produce what they can produce best. For the first time Soviet-bloc economic integration was extended to Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet...
...every Russian boy who thinks he has the wit to qualify. Russia already turns out two to three times as many engineers as the U.S., and 59% of its 2,000,000-odd students in higher education are after science degrees. The 17-year-old graduate of the best of Russia's ten-year secondary schools is reckoned to be at least two years ahead of his American counterpart in scientific attainment; he has had ten years of mathematics, six years of biology, five years of physics, four of chemistry. Westerners have found that even children's toys...
...following the script. Gesticulating wildly, he told a crowd of 2,000 in a Lisbon high school that he stood for "the persecuted intellectuals, the university graduates without means of work, the abandoned artists, the writers intimidated by the censor, the technicians denied the possibility of giving their best, the muzzled journalists -in fact, all that in other countries represents a true level of culture...