Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the Appropriations Committee of the Senate had unanimously passed a resolution providing that none of the 1957 funds could be used for the Aswan Dam. There was the fact that we had come to the feeling in our own mind that it was very dubious whether a project of this magnitude could be carried through with mutual advantage . . . Then there was the further fact that the Egyptians had . . . been developing ever-closer relations with the Soviet bloc countries . . . And in that way the Egyptians, in a sense, forced upon us an issue to which I think there...
Staff work for possible use of armed force to retake Suez, according to the Brombergers, was begun in a secret bombproof bunker beneath the Thames in early September. The operation, known as "Project Terrapin," was in military readiness by Sept. 20. At this time there had been no mention of the inclusion of Israel. But on Oct. 14 the Israelis advised Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury of their intention to invade Sinai, asking at the same time for extra military supplies. Bourges-Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter...
...permit upperclassmen to read widely in a special field of interest, with no supervision." Last year Marquette started an "optional class privilege" (i.e., unlimited cuts) program for top students, and this year Williams began putting its better boys in special small seminars, now lets them carry out research projects to wherever those projects might lead (sample subject: annihilation of positrons and electrons to produce gamma rays). At college after college, the cry seems to be: set the student free. Examples: ¶ Now ten years old, Yale's Scholars of the House program has provided much of the inspiration...
...report the incident at the time of its occurrence. Later, in an interview with the security officers he volunteered information which represented the incident, but in a disguised and misleading form. He named only a man named Eltonton who, he said, had approached three people on the project, through a harmless intermediary, with this proposal. He added that Eltonton had "a lot of experience in microfilm work, or whatever the hell" and contact with a Soviet Embassy man attached to a local consulate. Shortly thereafter, on being prodded to supply details, he said in fact that only...
...mute boy, Toby, was written for a performer who must combine the abilities of dancer and mime. Eugene Gervasi distinguishes himself in both capacities. He quite brilliantly manages to make his body and hands express the boy's desperate eagerness to speak, and, what is perhaps more difficult, project his love for the medium's daughter...