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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEFORE the U.S. can get going at top speed on a full-scale space program, it must cope with two big problems. It must clear the lines of bureaucratic responsibility and see that the space program is directed with determined authority; last month the President made a start on this problem, but only a start, when he transferred the Army's space team to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (TIME, Nov. 2). The second and overriding problem: the U.S. must develop an official understanding of the need for urgency in getting into space-or what Washington might call...
...moment, Dilworth observed, he was busy piling potato peelings on a scale and marking down notations now and then. Glancing again at his tray, Dilworth suddenly had no feeling for breakfast and as he shoved the tray into the automatic dispenser he noticed a sign which read...
Urged on by the National Council of Churches, the center has been two years abuilding on 32,000 sq. ft. of land made available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
...after he quit ABC, Kintner had an offer to join NBC as executive vice president in charge of color coordination ("I didn't know a damn thing about color"), took charge of TV operations in February 1958. That July he was named president, with a ten-year sliding-scale contract that pays him upwards of $150,000 yearly. Kintner frankly admits that he applied his ABC formula: canned series, westerns, private eyes-plus quizzes. He knifed Wide Wide World, Omnibus, live dramatic shows (including Kraft Theater). Says he: "I had to catch up with front-running CBS." This year...
...centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...