Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high school champion to run the mile in 4:22. When he broke his foot moving the family piano, Elliott gave up big-time racing, turned to high living, late nights and beer. Not until his father took him to the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne did Herb Elliott develop the spark of desire and discipline necessary for the lonely art of the mile...
...Atomic Energy Commission. "These men will need solid training in the basic sciences on which technology is built. They can learn the applications of these basics on the job. The ability to judge values will be just as important to them as the techniques of their trades. The humanities develop this kind of judgment...
...ships were few and the Navy encouraged young ensigns to leave. Earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Gordon joined G.M.'s Cadillac division as a laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high-compression engine that boosted sales and laid to rest an old joke about the gas-eating Caddy.† Gordon likes to test his own products himself. Once, during an argument with another G.M. executive in Colorado, where the corporation has a test track, he hustled...
Lessening the Pressure. Some world bankers were skeptical of such a fund when first proposed because it smacked too much of funny money. But more of them have been coming round to the view that such a fund is necessary to finance vitally needed development programs that the bank cannot back because they contain individual projects that will not pay off. With the proposed new fund, the bank, for example, could finance a dam, while the IDA could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would...
...Navy's Hunter-Killer Force (HUKFOR). With the three others, he was called before Arleigh Burke to answer the question: What could the Navy do to improve its submarine defenses? Hardly hesitating, Thach outlined a plan for a semipermanent task force, chartered to experiment with and develop new antisubmarine defense systems. When Thach finished talking, Arleigh Burke grinned. "Jimmy Thach," he said, "has just made an unfortunate speech. He doesn't know this, but he has talked himself into a job." The job: commander of Task Group Alfa ("A" in the communications phonetic alphabet), created as a Navy...