Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan will present a lecture, "Ann Radcliffe and Her Times," based upon his research on philanthropy in 17th century England. Ann Radcliffe, a member of this early charitable movement, established the first endowed scholarship fund at Harvard College...
...attack." The investigators, operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns Hopkins University Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research. While their report followed the doom-criers' pattern of giving the Communists a monopoly on perfection and the U.S. a monopoly on faults, it nonetheless added up to a tough-minded analysis of U.S. defense problems, here and to come...
...Pete") Quesada (ret.), administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and onetime aviation adviser to President Eisenhower; General Sam Anderson, chief of the Air Force Air Matériel Command; General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research and development; Rear Admiral Charles B. Martell, Hayward's assistant. Most of the high-flying officers have, or had, duties connected with procurement or air research. Martin, which does 99% of its business with the Pentagon, holds $800 million in defense contracts...
...said that if the U.S. refused a request for birth-control assistance overseas, "I would feel that my country had been disgraced." Said the Planned Parenthood Federation: "The President's position flouts the authoritative findings of experts in public health . . .: experts in economic development . . .: and experts in scientific research...
...City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...