Word: washingtonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON, Nov. 26--Deaths in Thanksgiving Day traffic increased slowly and steadily...
...economic and political configurations this would create have not, I would guess, gone unnoticed in Washington, London or Moscow. Neither London nor Moscow wants to see such a force arise. Now begins the game...
...started with Maryland's extension courses for military students in the Washington area. When many students were shipped to Germany in 1949, Maryland professors followed them, setting up six centers to serve an unexpected crush of 1,851 applicants. Enrollment grew and grew. At 204 centers in 23 countries, more than 130,000 G.I.s and dependents have now been through the Maryland mill. (Up to 75% of a G.I.'s tuition is paid by the armed forces...
...Washington this week as guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was set up to schedule and keep under continuous review the progress of the Polaris missile program, an administrative task rivaling the Manhattan Project in complexity. Thanks largely to PERT, the Polaris missile is programed to be operational in late 1960, two years ahead of schedule...
Married. Catherine Wood Marshall, 45, bestselling author (A Man Called Peter; Mr. Jones, Meet the Master; To Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed...