Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will sign no letter prepared by anyone else, and he personally dictates the great bulk of cables going to Indian ambassadors abroad. His Cabinet ministers have long since become accustomed to being awakened in the middle of the night by "urgent" Nehru messages complaining about an unpainted government housing project or a trash can that sits too far out in a road. Nehru, complains one close acquaintance, "often has the feeling that if he can't get to an issue it might just as well not be done." All hands agree, however, that for a man of 66 India...
...Complaining Angel was a "harder ticket" than Broadway's My Fair Lady-only nuns were admitted to its three performances, staged as a training project by the department of speech for the summer school that annually brings some 800 teaching sisters to Notre Dame. "You can't teach a skill if you have never mastered it," explains Drama Teacher Natalie White, who wrote and directed the show. It is her third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout...
Prefab Synagogues. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and United States Steel Homes, Inc. have joined in a project to build, furnish and arrange financing for prefabricated synagogues, day schools and community centers now needed as a result of the exodus to the suburbs. U.S. Steel, which also markets prefab churches, branch banks and homes, says a 325-seat synagogue can be erected within four days...
Since 1951 the University of Illinois has had a team working on a way to change all that. The project was launched when university authorities found engineering applicants were consistently ill-equipped mathematically, wasted months in learning basic math skills they should have learned in high school. It assigned young (then 26) Mathematician Max Beberman of the University's College of Education to show the high schools how to step up their math instruction. Beberman, later joined by Page, decided the trouble lay in the whole approach to math teaching. He junked old methods, drew up a new curriculum...
...religious establishment on one of the islands. After years of privation the holy man has shed the "creed of any religion but he believed as the Hindus do that God is in all things, animate and inanimate, that all things are in God." Because he knows the religious project will destroy the living creatures on the islands, he declares war on the interlopers. But in the course of three assaults, in which he enlists the help of an army of snakes and plunders a temple of its god, the sadhu only succeeds in strengthening his enemies and losing his otherworldliness...