Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever arrays his men before a "Master Milestone Chart" which lists the key achievement dates and key target dates in the progress of the ICBM. Eight thousand channels lead from all elements of the program to the master chart, and they reveal clearly, and often painfully, where the program is lagging. "The successes and failures of all departments get a good airing," Schriever says. "We try to take lessons from the success...
...place at the snobbish weekly. But from her very first day in 1895, the trim, bright-eyed mail clerk named Edna Woolman Martin somehow felt "a proprietary interest" in the affairs of Vogue as it chronicled the genteel caprices of New York society rounding out a comfortable century of progress and optimism...
...Slow Progress. Economist Villalbi's cure for these ills calls for a mixture of more freedom in some areas and more government control in others. He aims to brake the factory-building fling, concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...
...poetry, Fitts' work is momentous progress over the literal rendering of W.R. Paton in the Loeb Classical Library; he has allowed himself what he terms "free paraphrase" and the result is sometimes startingly beautiful and strong...
...thus shunt their contents over into the coronaries. Hufnagel hit on this theory by chance when, during different cardiac operations, mammary arteries were cut accidentally, and patients made better recoveries. Hufnagel has been doing this type of operation for years, is still patiently compiling data on his patients' progress before making claims of its effectiveness. Virtually the same operation, though done in execution of a different theory, attracted wide U.S. attention in January. It was reported by Philadelphia's Robert Prentice Glover. Glover gives credit to Italian surgeons for developing the technique, finds that the operation...