Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia were halted in 1960, the U.S. has had to depend heavily on its Samos, Ferret, Midas and Vela systems for vital intelligence about the Soviet Union. With those satellites, the U.S. has mapped and photographed Russia's missile sites and radar installations, followed the stages of nuclear progress in Red China, watched troop movements in both countries and eavesdropped on conversations at the Russian cosmodromes...
...name a chairman for the drive this Fall, and no completion date has been set. At least one University official is pessimistic about the prospects for a campaign of this magnitude, considering that the $82.5 million program for Harvard College ended only six years ago, and drives now in progress have a gloomy record...
Machine-Gunning the House. In the area of repertory, Bing's record at the old Met speaks for itself: 50 new productions, three U.S. premieres (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Strauss's Arabella, Menotti's The Last Savage), and one world premiere (Barber's Vanessa). His own taste favors Italian opera; he is only lukewarm about Wagner and, with a few exceptions, indifferent to modern. Compared with Milan's La Scala or West Berlin's opera, whose repertories are laced with contemporary works, the Met, as one critic puts it, "remains...
...aptitude trainees would be Negroes, cried that he was out "to exterminate us" by qualifying more Negroes for service in Viet Nam. Most of this criticism was far off target, but it did help raise the fundamental question of whether the Defense Department should be an engine of social progress through education...
...technique in military schools is to go from the concrete to the abstract, rather than putting theory ahead of practice, as most civilian schools do. Today's radio technician, for example, learns to spot a malfunction before he learns Ohm's law. Trainees are also allowed to progress at their own pace, often working alone with programmed textbooks. Where classroom teaching is used, service schools keep the student-teacher ratio low, take full advantage of military discipline and of the sense of immediacy that training for war gives...