Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy records for pilots with certain specifications. Among them: a university degree in the physical sciences or engineering, completion of military test-pilot training, a minimum of 1,500 logged hours of flight time, age less than 40, maximum height 5 ft. 11 in., superb physical condition, and physical and psychological attributes suited for space flight. Last week Keith Glennan, boss of the National Aeronautics...
Glennan dubbed the 110 men Mercury Astronauts, said that beginning this month they will go to Washington in groups of about 30 for full briefings on Project Mercury. After that, the candidates will be asked if they want to volunteer. From the volunteers, 36 will be chosen to be tested on their ability to cope with the strange stresses of space flight...
Even Moscow's basic offer-a loan of $130 million to be paid back over twelve years at a mere 2½% interest-has worked to its advantage. In Indian eyes, this makes the Bhilai project a business deal rather than an embarrassing "gift" (since 1947 the U.S. has showered a whopping $1.75 billion on India in gifts, loans and credits). Furthermore, at cost to its own steel industry, the Soviet Union has been sending India its top talent. "They have to be our best men," said one Russian. "You can say it is a matter of face...
...secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
...Harvard is able to get rights to the land, it will probably be used for two new residential Houses for undergraduates and probably one or two apartment houses, which would be taxable and thus contribute to strengthening the Cambridge tax base. Along with Quincy House, these two projected Houses would complete the Program for Harvard College project of constructing three new Houses for expansion and reduction of crowding...