Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...services may soon be over. The problem: space. McElroy is determined that his long-discussed Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA) will handle development of future space projects. The services-which have their own designs on space-are complaining bitterly and effectively that ARPA will be a costly duplication, a fourth service. Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian is arguing for a plan to turn the ARPA mission over to the independent, efficient National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, headed by Lieut. General Jimmy Doo-little-a plan pushed by both the Navy and the NACA...
Akins, who slipped to the canvas in the fourth when hurt by a left hook, sent Tony down with a right uppercut and two violent lefts in the eighth. DeMarco fell against the ropes and pitched forward on his stomach. He was up at the count of seven and gamely finished the round by holding his own in a slugfest...
...statement. Paratrooper Gavin, the two-fisted boss of the Army's Research and Development section, bluntly revealed his "intuitive" feeling that Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor had reneged on an agreement to make him head of the U.S. Continental Army Command (with a fourth star for his shoulder). Furthermore, said Gavin, the Army had tried to transfer him to command of the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe (the same three stars), a step that was aimed at halting his ringing insistence that the Army's role was being whittled down...
...pupils in all other mathematics and science courses has slumped. Physics is down 10%, chemistry 17%. Other academic subjects have also suffered: enrollment in social studies, which include one required year of U.S. history, has dropped 9%; first, second and third-year Latin are down an average 20%; fourth-year Latin is not offered...
...mile relay team was less successful. The Crimson finished fourth in a race against Georgetown, Yale, and Winston-Salem. Joel Landau, Dave Brahms, Pat Liles, and Lee Barnes ran for the varsity with the last two mentioned turning in the best performances...