Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several objections might be raised. Would not such a scheme remove the "elites" from the other Gen Ed courses. Undoubtedly, some of the more motivated members might be channeled off, but this could easily be salutary for the rest of section. A wider participation would probably result as some of those who often held the floor might leave. Discussion would probably become more stimulating for those who remain...
Last week the popular Rural Self-Help scheme, which gives villagers essentials such as nails, cement and simple tools so that they themselves can build schools, roads and small dams, had ground to a stop because U.S. funds had run out. ICA's new discipline requires strict accounting of first-quarter funds before second-quarter funds can be released. But Laotians, not accustomed to American accountants' techniques, were slow to comply with all the forms, despite lengthy pleas from Vientiane. Rather than see the whole program collapse before the rainy season stops all work in June, ICA Mission...
...World Congress of Flight, which the Air Force assembled last week among the slot machines of Las Vegas, Nev., Dr. Edward Teller described a scheme to explode a nuclear charge 100 million miles away from the earth. The purpose would be to test a key assumption of Einstein's theory of relativity: that every kind of electromagnetic radiation (light, infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves, X rays and gamma rays) travels at the same speed-186,000 miles a second...
...knighted and lionized at 35 for his 1909 journey to Antarctica, Shackleton in 1914 was frantic because the great goals were disappearing. The North Pole had fallen to U.S. Explorer Robert E. Peary in 1909, the South Pole to Norway's Roald Amundsen in 1911. Shackleton conceived a scheme of sailing to the Atlantic coast of Antarctica and sledging across the continent via the Pole to the Pacific. He called it "the largest and most striking of all journeys." The Royal Geographical Society was cool to the idea-as well it might be. The feat was not achieved until...
...budget of more than $2 billion in mind, Mayor Robert F. Wagner went to the State capital in Albany with proposals for $157 million in new revenue, including a tax on legalized offtrack betting. The State--as personified by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Legislature--turned down this scheme and cut new funds down to $125 million. Wagner was thus forced last week to present what he called an "austerity" budget, still well over $2 billion...