Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the program, grandly titled "The Mayors Leadership Institute," is any rest cure. From Sunday night through noon Wednesday, the "students" listen to 18 speakers and to each other. Most of the "faculty" are former city or federal officials who have become full-time specialists in urban fields. They dispense information about arcane money management methods, political techniques, trends to expect in the future and, above all, how to get by in a period of stagnant federal and state aid. One proposed device: juggle whatever cash is on hand adroitly enough to earn maximum interest on it. The mayors respond...
...formal program is obviously valuable. But like women at their first consciousness-raising session, the mayors are utterly delighted to find other people who share, and above all, understand their problems. As they chat they soon find themselves finishing each other's sentences like old friends. Paul Doutrich of Harrisburg, who looks a bit like bug-eyed Comedian Rodney ("I don't get no respect") Dangerfield, learned about the disastrous doings at nearby Three Mile Island from an enterprising Boston radio reporter who called long distance to check out the rumor of imminent nuclear disaster...
...manned program, in virtual hibernation since the last Skylab mission in 1973, will reawaken when the shuttle begins operation next year. Plans call for several missions each year, with the half spaceship/half-glider confined to earth orbit...
With the decline of the manned program came an equal lack of enthusiasm for automated missions to explore the planets. In 1972, with help from the White House, Congress eliminated the "Grand Tour" project, which would have taken advantage of a rare (once every 180 years) planetary alignment to survey the entire outer solar system. Those missions that were approved often did not receive funding for complete analysis of the return data. Others--to map the moon and check it for metal deposits, to research solar phenomena, to rendezvous with Halley's Comet--never got past appropriations subcommittees...
PRESIDENT CARTER HAS DIAGNOSED our "crisis of confidence" accurately. It's not that we don't trust Carter the man, it's that we don't trust Carter the leader. His Baptist morality is fine, but his energy program is a simpering excuse for real direction...