Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish Central Bank refuses to honor government orders to release foreign exchange. Neither near bankruptcy nor the appeals of his friends can persuade Menderes that the time has come to end his headlong passion for building and spending. To every suggestion for retrenchment, Menderes responds by commissioning a new project...
...latest, he heads off without breakfast on an hour to two-hour hike that invariably includes at least one hill. His workday is a 12-to 19-hour affair, punctuated by impulsive trips into the countryside to inspect one of his projects. Out of long experience, his bodyguards always keep packed bags at the office, and Turkish Airlines is instructed to hold open at least two seats on every Ankara-Istanbul flight. Along with his energy goes a monumental memory for detail. Says one aide: "He knows things like telephone numbers, how many bags of cement such and such...
After only three sessions, some of the teachers have already begun to expose their own pupils to the new things they have learned. But the major lesson of the Portland project is that if more cities do not do something similar soon, U.S. teachers will find themselves dismally unprepared for a curriculum in which the barriers between algebra, geometry and analysis are crumbling, solid geometry and trigonometry may disappear as separate subjects, and algebra will deal with such topics as groups, rings and fields. As one Portland student put it: "Even the concept of the line has changed. In geometry...
...fire into the Southside community. Publisher Sagant mounted a hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved under the new Eisenhower urban-renewal program...
...competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy did not specify which service would operate the weapons system once it was developed, but the split-up of a development project that was, in fact, a single problem seemed an odd way to get efficiency-unless McElroy could find...