Word: developers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limelight and establish a position." Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted that the Directorate of Astronautics had indeed been set up "prematurely" and "contrary to assurances." oint was that the Pentagon intends soon ) set up its own Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Dec. 16) designed both to develop fantasy weapons id to minimize service rivalries and headline-grabbing. The Air Force will wait, said Secretary Douglas, until its own space plans can be "coordinated with the specific plans for the new agency...
...what comes out in the papers is apt to be more damaging to security than the truth. A LIFE photographer [Stan Wayman] awhile back zeroed in so close on an Atlas you could almost see the rivets on it. If we had photographers on the base, they could develop their film right here and submit it for clearance through security channels on the spot. They'd have better pictures-and we would be able to airbrush classified details. This way the public would get far more reliable coverage...
...acceptance of his peers than for the acceptance of the teacher. Teacher approval tends to weaken peer approval." Students thought up most assignments, were "encouraged to do as much or as little reading as their individual needs seemed to require." The whole idea was for students to develop the "we feeling" and to strengthen "such commonalities as the learner must have in order to be an accepted member of his society." "All were encouraged to speak first and then to think through what they had said." Among the authors' other recommendations: ¶Though the teacher must stick around...
...order to develop," Miss Wright believes, "a soul needs some privacy in which it can try itself on to see how it looks." For Miss Wright, who deserves to be left alone, there is no privacy, only Organization and its evils: Conformity, Regulation, Stupidity. "I would like to have one tiny foible," she explains. "I would like to save string, be scared of the telephone, let my heels run over, not wear gloves. Sometime I would like to make a little scene...
...tries to develop this idea humorously but fails, because she never makes up her mind whether she is going to be an intellectual or a humorist. Being one obviously does not preclude being the other, but Miss Wright is neither intelligently humorous nor humorously intelligent. She is Gertrude Stein reciting a comic monologue, which is absurd but not funny...