Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every few weeks," said a dejected Air Force sergeant in England last month, "but I can see the writing on the wall. They ain't comin' through." Like thousands of others, the sergeant had ceased to believe in the recurring rumor that the Defense Department would soon lift its ban on Government-paid travel for dependents of servicemen stationed in Europe (TIME, April 13). But last week-after months of angry complaints by separated service families and some sticky questions at presidential press conferences-the Pentagon finally came through...
...attention of viewers of any age, the program was designed especially for teen-agers in the hope of attracting their minds toward the science of space. It therefore wastes no time talking down to adults, is presented in terms more familiar to the young -time-capability, power-limited, lift vectors, rendezvous and docking, ablation shields, paragliders...
...potatoes," Minow also reviewed the commission's accomplishments in TV during his tenure. The FCC has set up an education branch to help the growth of educational TV. It is pushing for dozens of new channels in the ultra-high frequencies to open up competition and hopefully lift the general quality of commercial television. Experiments in pay TV have been both condoned and conducted. Some 14 stations have been put on probation because of violations of FCC regulations, mainly for packing excessive commercials around their programs...
Balancing the good portents with the bad, the New Frontier's economists still hold to their four-months-old prediction that 1962 urban housing starts will increase by 124,000, to 1,400,000. If they are right, the construction industry may yet supply the long-awaited "lift" needed to put some real steam in the recovery. An increase of 124,000 new houses would add at least $5 billion to the G.N.P.-half in the cost of building and equipping the new houses and half in the added income spread through the economy by construction hands, real estate...
Harvard Stadium is getting a lift and . Work began last week on the resurfacing of the football field, in over 30 years...