Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build up its case, the committee called in two scientists, still bitter against Strauss for his part in getting the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lifted in 1954, in a sequel to the fierce battle in which Strauss urged-and Oppenheimer opposed-a program to develop an H-bomb. Argonne National Laboratory Physicist David R. Inglis, newly elected chairman of the politicking Federation of American Scientists, charged that Strauss, out of "personal vindictiveness," had dragged scientific freedom "into the dirt" in the Oppenheimer case. But Inglis threw considerable light on his own judgment when he remarked that Alger...
Businessman Governor Luther Hodges made the wage floor a key part of his legislative program two years ago, got it to floor debate after ten years of death-by-committee. This year, backed by a determined band of freshman legislators, Hodges insisted on the minimum wage as necessary paving on the state's road into the future. Said he: "Employers can afford it, employees deserve it, and the state's economic progress demands...
...politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
Change of Pace. Before the plane crash, the Republicans had hoped that Menderes' highhanded treatment of the press and the opposition, and the inflation caused by his ambitious economic development program, would ultimately bring Menderes down. Republicans are now afraid that Menderes. enjoying his new mystical popularity, may call a snap general election. They decided to hit the road themselves. Inonu's spirited welcome and the public resentment against his rough treatment suggest that the country may be fairly evenly divided at the moment. At week's end Inonu canceled a scheduled visit to Berlin. Said...
LIFE'S program includes changes in "product, pricing and production." On the editorial side, said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, the LIFE of the '60s will be taking as its province "all things human, and revealing these things sometimes through the eye of highest scholarship, sometimes through the squint of humor, and always, we hope, through the eyes of the heart. In putting out this magazine, only our convictions must remain firm. All else-tradition, technique-are game for change...