Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...
...m delighted," the President said warmly to the four top college students who marched into his White House office last week. Ike was pleased not just with their extraordinary academic records. Each of the students is bright, talented, spirited-and blind. Ike handed them $500 checks signed by Manhattan's Recording for the Blind Inc., which supplies the blind scholars (and 750 others in some 300 colleges) with free textbooks on 16½-r.p.m. records, made by 1,200 volunteers in every walk of life. The four prizewinners...
...athletes, given either the drug amphetamine or a placebo, were tested nearly 800 times. Drs. Gene M. Smith and Henry K. Beecher conducted the Harvard study, which was correlated with similar work done at Springfield College, and with a national survey of coaches...
Since the suffocation of academic life is only one aspect of the military and political squeeze which France has put on Algeria, the solution to the student problem rests upon the result of the Algerian war. To M. Aitchalal's mind, there are only two possibilities. The total extermination of the Algerian people, of whom 500,000 mainly civilians, have already been killed, or truce and negotiations, based on France's public recognition of the independence and equality of Algeria...
...rebels with a cause, they saw no lack of issues for the American student. Far from wanting idealistic American undergraduates to grab shotguns and set sail for Algeria, they could only ask repeatedly why we remained inert before such a problem as integration. With this issue at stake, how, M. Aitchalal asked, can a campus be torn over the question of making a jacket and tie compulsory at dinner...