Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DENVER POST...
...post-Sputnik drive to meet the challenge of the Soviet Union's massive educational drive, the Houston school board asked the University of Houston and Rice Institute to help beef up the city's science teaching; Chicago upped the required academic courses for high school students from six to ten; Seattle plans advanced work for bright seventh graders; Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey called for a 5½-day school week and a ten-month year. But from M.I.T. last week came evidence that the Soviet school system has faults of its own. For a report on the flaws...
...pure-science contribution to the International Geophysical Year. Since the Soviet Sputniks, TV3 had also become the symbol of the U.S.'s determination to get going in the race for the conquest of space; the President himself had called attention to its approximate firing date in a post-Sputnik press conference. But even as the days and hours and minutes ticked by to the critical T (for test firing) Time, it was clear that the symbolism was getting out of hand. At Cape Canaveral, Project Vanguard scientists and Pentagon aides briefed 127 U.S. and foreign newsmen on the hopes...
Mitchell's reforms will require no elaborate system of enforcement or constant federal intervention in union affairs; they simply require reports to the Labor Department on union operations. But behind the paper work there will be muscle. Mitchell proposed the creation of the post of Commissioner of Labor, with power to subpoena records and individuals, and a change in the law to give federal courts jurisdiction in cases of embezzlement of union funds, which now fall exclusively to state courts. With this kind of added strength, the Labor Department could be certain of keeping all sore spots in union...
Steve Weddle, a consistent performer for last year's Yardlings, will open at 167 lbs. He will have a tough fight for the 157 lb. post from Jack Eastling and Joe Goodman...