Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That seed money for a much-touted "Cleveland: NOW!" effort has already sprouted more than $100 million in massive aid from federal matching fund programs. It has found jobs for 5,900 hardcore unemployed-more than a fourth of the city's total-and disbursed $500,000 to help black businessmen get started. It will create 4,600 new housing units by the end of next year...
...tragedy marked still another lengthy setback for the Sealab project, which is already about two years behind schedule. Designed to help man learn the techniques and develop the equipment that will enable him to live and work for long periods under the sea, the project has been beset by delays. First there was a steel strike; then some of the steel that was delivered turned unexpectedly brittle at low temperatures. Redesign of the oxygen system was called for after the fatal Apollo fire, and that was followed by a series of seawater and helium leaks. At week...
...aquanauts and expressed confidence that their mission would continue successfully for its scheduled two-month duration. If everything goes according to plan, the aquanauts hope to complete underwater biological and geological studies, learn more about diving and sonar techniques and supply medical and behavioral data that will help scientists plan the longer manned space flights of the future...
...Houston paid tribute to Houbolt, who quit NASA in 1963 and now works for an aeronautical-research firm in Princeton, N.J. "I just thank my lucky stars that guys like Houbolt came along," said Caldwell Johnson, chief of the manned-spacecraft-design office. "I suppose that Columbus had some help...
...green Oldsmobile was parked alongside the curb in a middle-class residential neighborhood of New York City. Two men got out, removed the license plates, and opened the hood slightly to make the car look as if it had been stolen or left alone while its owner went for help. Then they withdrew to a nearby window, where-unseen-they could watch what was to happen...