Word: programs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet counterparts. But in concentrating on closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project in mid-1955, as part of the International Geophysical year effort, the Administration settled for a minimal, low-priority program, misnamed Project Vanguard. In retrospect, it was no wonder that the U.S.S.R. got into space first...
...years after Sputnik I, the U.S. still has no broad, coordinated space program with clearly defined, long-range goals. When a congressional committee tried to find out a few months ago what overall goals the various programs were pushing toward, ARPA's Johnson testified that he did not know of any "total long-term space program." Echoed Lieut. General Bernard Schriever, Air Force research and development chief: "I am not aware whether or not there is an effort being made to lay out one single program...
...theory, overall policymaking is done by the top-level National Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by the President himself. But NASC meets seldom, spends much of its time deciding which organization-chart rectangles various projects belong to. The Mercury man-in-space program, for example, has migrated during the past two years from the Air Force to ARPA to NASA, inevitably losing momentum with each shift...
...less important to Britain's future, however, are such social goals as the Tory program to step up slum clearance and rehouse a million more Britons by 1965. For Harold Macmillan, such programs are both ethical and practical imperatives. As he sees it, the guiding principle of Tory democracy must be that laid down by his favorite predecessor, Benjamin Disraeli: "To elevate the condition of the people." It is by elevating the condition of the people that Macmillan has led the British electorate steadily away from the sterile socialist doctrines that once threatened to emasculate the free economy that...
...week's end no flat answer had yet come. Van Doren was in hiding, having added nothing to a midweek wire to Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris that on the program he was "never assisted in any form." (Van Doren said that he had made the same statement to a New York county grand jury months ago.) His failure to respond to the subcommittee's invitation to testify had already caused NBC, which employs him at $50,000 a year as consultant and as a Today commentator, to suspend him. And many of the characters who had surrounded...