Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon and beyond. Cape Canaveral is the U.S. Spaceport of the Future, and today it is in full-dress rehearsal-a monumental, $370 million stage where, day and night, civilian and military scientists and technicians work with freshly blueprinted tools over the incredibly complex mechanisms of space travel. With each launching of an Atlas, Jupiter or Thor-though flames may consume the bird only minutes later-the men of Cape Canaveral are testing and proving everything from an idea to a pump, amassing the knowledge that will ensure the success of man's epochal flight into space as well...
...nation's classrooms, the committee has set up an ambitious training program for high school teachers. This summer 250 teachers out of 1,500 applicants will spend six to eight weeks learning the course at five colleges and institutions around the country, get paid $75 a week (plus travel money and $15 a week for each dependent) by the National Science Foundation. By 1960, Committee Chairman Dr. Jerrold R. Zacharias hopes to have trained an army of 10,000 teachers able to bring modern physics to 600,000 pupils a year. The prospect is enough to make Dr. Zacharias...
Buried Statistics. Determined not to see the clouds for the silver lining, many editors are solicitously pumping up buoyant bulletins on building permits, bank deposits, airline travel, and other statistics that are normally buried on the business page. Scripps-Howard's Memphis Press-Scimitar last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off. In Atlanta, the Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed Aircraft workers last fall until it could report that...
...week that their double-domed partnership will end March 1. Reason for the split: the Saturday Evening Post has offered Stewart Alsop, 43, newly created job that "I cannot refuse." As the Satevepost's contributing editor for national affairs, Stewart will still be based n Washington, but will travel widely on stories in the U.S. and abroad...
...rich, not from his plays and histories but because he was a shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...