Word: projections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such is the state of the whole U.S. space program that not one U.S. space project has a firm target completion date. The nation's space leaders are not necessarily space enthusiasts...
Healy, 62, accepted invitations from the Air Defense Command to witness an interceptor missile shoot called Project William Tell II at Tyndall Air Force Base (near Panama City, Fla.)-and, incidentally, to absorb some good-natured press-agentry that would help still public complaints over loud jet noises and chimney-rattling sonic booms...
...catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a motel 30 miles away, the two mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell stuff," he wanted jet rides arranged, and he wanted transportation set up for their departure for Vermont...
...leafed through the Fulbright; he needed a study project, recommendations, and four copies of a Curriculum Vitae. He paused over the study project: "I would like," he wrote finally, "to study the effect of the fear of Asian immigration on Australian poetry of the twentieth century. There has been no satisfactory work yet done in this field." He wrote his project twice, each time with a carbon copy and then spent an hour composing a Curriculum Vitae. The Curriculum Vitae, he told himself, I can use on the Fulbright and the French Government Grant Application and the Fulbright Travel Grant...
...been passed in farcical travesties of parliamentary procedure. NSA, though, has now nullified many of these objections through procedural reforms: Fewer resolutions are presented; they are discussed thoroughly in workshop committees, and qualified opinion from outside experts is solicited. Furthermore, NSA is strengthening general student consciousness of issues; a "Project Awareness" program for presenting issues on campuses will encourage the representation at the congresses of a more informed student opinion...