Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Projects Agency, headed by Roy Johnson, sometime General Electric executive, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, headed by T. Keith Glennan, engineer, ex-Hollywood studio manager and president-on-leave of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology. Neither ARPA nor NASA has enough authority or resources to set long-range goals and march toward them. Splinters of space programs are further scattered among the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Defense Department's Office of Research and Engineering. Result: a maze of divided responsibilities in which appalling amounts of time and effort go into switching programs...
...Kluszewski hit two homers. The Chicagoans looked like they would repeat the performance next day, but young Buck Shaw threw three bad pitches. Two were hits out of the park by 155-pound Charlie Neal, the other by Chuck Essegian--the first of his two pinch homers that set a Series record...
...question of what Castro is and what he stands for is a vital one. It must be answered before one can understand Cuba or the Revolution, because for the next few years the course set by Castro will be that taken by Cuba. And in the eyes of most Cubans, Fidelis the Revolution...
...previous experiences surged together in a denunciation of the dictator Batista's regime; his vague ideas materialized into specific proposals, set down for the first time at his trial. He devoted scarcely five minutes to his own defense, which his accusers had hoped would occupy most of his time. Instead he pleaded that the judges, corrupt Batista stooges, redeem themselves by following him, Fidel Castro, in overthrowing the Batista regime. He still believes in the program he outlined at that trial in 1953; it forms the ideological basis of the Revolution...
Dunlop, however, thinks a settlement without a price rise is "unlikely," but minimized its inflationary effect since all the other outstanding contract negotiations this year have already been decided. "Steel will follow, not set the pace," he suggested...