Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thin strips of radiation-sensitive film, to detect over-exposure to ionizing radiation, will be worn by some University employees starting this morning. The Radiation Protection Program provides the wrist and chest film badges which are to be worn by people working in radiation-sensitive laboratories and other areas...
...delay is damaging morale at the Commerce Department (where Strauss has been serving under a recess appointment since last November) and harshly punishing a man whom the U.S. has reason to remember with gratitude for his 1949 fight, as a member of the AEC, to get an H-bomb program under way. Strauss won the fight-against the opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the AEC's General Advisory Committee-just in time to keep the U.S.S.R. from gaining an H-bomb monopoly...
...Yates private-power contract with the AEC (TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.). Anderson seems to be merely carrying on his longtime personal vendetta with Strauss. Also working against Strauss: scientists who have never forgiven him for crowbarring Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who fought hard against the H-bomb program in 1949, out of the General Advisory Committee chairmanship...
...from the 3% sales tax-biggest income source-must be turned back to city and town governments and school districts. All gasoline tax revenue must be spent on the highways. Result: the state must meet costs of state government, the state universities, the state police, the state mental health program, the state's unexpectedly high unemployment welfare payments (current unemployment: 340,000, or 11.5% of the work force) out of a general fund of little more than one-third of total revenue. The recession undercut expected revenues by $43 million...
Governor Almond, who had bowed with courage and dignity in accepting token integration as inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9), staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...