Word: chart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, overall policymaking is done by the top-level National Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by the President himself. But NASC meets seldom, spends much of its time deciding which organization-chart rectangles various projects belong to. The Mercury man-in-space program, for example, has migrated during the past two years from the Air Force to ARPA to NASA, inevitably losing momentum with each shift...
...revision of the inflated 1958 production claims. With only five weeks to go until the tenth anniversary of Communist power in China, Peking was obliged to admit to the world that the big leap had fallen painfully short, and that production goals for 1959 had been sharply reduced (see chart...
...wants changed promptly is the discrimination by European nations against dollar imports. Such restrictions may have been necessary in the early postwar years, when these countries had a shortage of dollars. But now, said Anderson, prosperous European nations with big stocks of gold and short-term dollar assets (see chart) no longer "have any balance-of-payments justification for discriminatory restrictions." Unless Europe cooperates by eliminating such restrictions, Anderson hinted, the U.S. may have to take action-perhaps a cut in foreign aid-to correct the balance...
...Eleanor T. Glueck, research associate in criminology, have compiled the first such tables in the history of criminology. Their findings will be published today by the Harvard University Press in a book entitled "Predicting Delinquency and Crime." Based on 30-odd years of research and study, the Glueck tables chart the offender from pre-delinquency through juvenile and adult court, sentence, parole, and possible freedom...
...faced with a 27-ft. putt downhill over a hump, Nicklaus precisely moved his new bat and watched the ball trickle home to eliminate California's Gene Andrews, 2 and 1. "There was no way that ball could get into the cup," complained Andrews, who carried a form chart on every green. "Just no way it could be done...