Word: developing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space program is directed with determined authority; last month the President made a start on this problem, but only a start, when he transferred the Army's space team to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (TIME, Nov. 2). The second and overriding problem: the U.S. must develop an official understanding of the need for urgency in getting into space-or what Washington might call "the scientific and military requirement for space...
...Appointed a six-man National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, headed by Secretary of State Herter and to include Brother Milton Eisenhower, to study troubled U.S. relations with Latin America, develop "useful ideas," and promote "wider understanding" (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Ceiling Unlimited. But all great powers find themselves helplessly engaged in a kind of no-ceiling poker game in which each feels obliged to arm itself not only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
Contributor Giacomo Perico would have people develop a more acute sense of "highway sin." Perhaps the biggest highway sinner of all is the driver who takes chances and trusts to luck. If he has an accident, the church cannot absolve him until he has made good all damages, aided any victims and avoided perjury in court. If he gets himself killed, he has in a sense committed the sin of suicide. Father Perico would slow down drivers with a campaign of highway slogans. Samples: HURRY is ALMOST ALWAYS A SIGN OF PRIDE AND EGOISM, and HIGHWAY IMPATIENCE IS A SIGN...
...program. But this problem is not serious; the School does not have a faculty of its own. Rather, it is a cooperative venture of the various social sciences departments. Patterson doubts that a discipline called "Public and International Affairs" really exists, and the School does not try to develop a new discipline, but to offer an inter-disciplinary approach to certain problems...