Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turnaround. In about nine years the Navy has tried to retrain 48,000 problem personnel, succeeded in restoring 14,000 to duty-enough to man four big aircraft carriers. Last week the Elliott psychology project was being studied at the Navy's two other retraining commands, Portsmouth, N.H. and Norfolk, Va., to see whether this rate can be bettered...
With somewhat more wisdom than he showed in "approving the project," Secretary Talbott last week said that he did not want to go into many details of Moral Re-Armament's half-price-loading, because "some other institution might want to take advantage . . . Once we start this sort of thing, everybody will be after...
...thunderous standing ovation" for Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai. That done, the delegates listened to a mournful recitation of China's economic woes by Chief Planner Li Fu-chun. Nearly three years after the announcement of his Five Year Plan, Li confessed that his grandiose project to remake China in the image of Soviet Russia by 1957 was hardly worth the paper it was written...
...devout Quaker, he seemed just the man for the nation's oldest Quaker college. He knew all his 450 students by name, and on Campus Day, when students and facultymen don old clothes to work at some campus building project, President White was out there hammering with the rest of them. Though he looked like an undergraduate himself, he managed to give Haverford some of the happiest years of its life. He raised faculty salaries quadrupled scholarships, more than doubled the endowment to $10 million. He served as vice chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, was adviser...
Died. Dr. Wendell M. Latimer, 62, professor of chemistry at the University of California, onetime (1943-47) director of the Manhattan Project, winner (in 1948) of a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his wartime contribution to the development of the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif...