Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nose for Starvation. He showed the breadth of his fiscal shrewdness when he returned the $6.6 million Vanguard program to the Navy and said: "Figure it out again. You're way too low. I think it will be over $100 million." Final cost of the trouble-trailed Vanguard program: $110 million...
...Obsolete or Obsolescent." Gaitskell's lavish promises promptly evoked an outraged reply from Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcot Amory. The Labor program, said Heathcot Amory, is "irresponsible," could only result in "huge increase of public expenditure, sharp rise in taxation, and a return to inflation with severe danger to our balance of payments...
...author's pride in commonwealth, which since 1952 has given Puerto Rico (pop. 2,400,000) local self-government plus exemption from Federal income taxes. He fears that statehood would be fatal both to the Hispanic culture he prizes and to Operation Bootstrap, an industrialization program fostered by tax abatement. But with the entry of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, Muñoz had to give way to growing statehood sentiment, some of it within his own Popular Democratic Party...
Five Years of Study. Stanford disagrees that there will be any drop in quality, points out that under its new curriculum it will need much less help from volunteer clinicians. Inspired by the program undertaken seven years ago by Cleveland's Western Reserve University (TIME, July 2, 1956), the Stanford curriculum has been completely rebuilt to "humanize" the doctor by spreading his studies over five years instead of four, teaching him more about the patient as a whole and less about medical specialties, at least at the start. Med-school freshmen will begin with wide-ranging courses that relate...
...President Eisenhower's desk for signature this week: a bill providing the largest company health-insurance program in the country. Eligible: 2,000,000 federal employees and their families, who may choose just about any kind of medical plan they want, either Blue Cross-Blue Shield, insurance company indemnity plans, or a special group-practice plan with a contracted pool of doctors. Scheduled to go into effect July 1, 1960, the new program will cost $222 million annually, to be shared in most cases on a fifty-fifty basis by the Government and individual civil servants...