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There are men of good will who remain unconvinced. Moon money, they say, would be far better spent on earth-in the war against poverty, for example, or in much needed medical research. Dr. Warren Weaver, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has calculated that the probable cost of the lunar project could provide, among other things, 10% annual salary raises for ten years to every teacher in the country, a $10 million grant to each of 200 small U.S. colleges, the endowment of universities in more than 50 new nations. New York...
N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "The World of Carl Sandburg." Uta Hagen, Fritz Weaver, Folk Singer Carolyn Hester and a singing group known as the Tarriers get together for an informal recitation of Sandburg's poetry and prose with musical interpolations from Sandburg's American Songbag...
...enabling conventional lenders to stretch their funds further. Last week N.A.H.B. urged the Government to expand the Federal National Mortgage Association, now confined by law to the purchase of FHA and VA loans, into a facility dealing with non-Government mortgages as well. Housing & Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver went so far as to suggest that the whole cumbersome system of home buying and financing needs a radical overhaul "to get us out of this dilemma and prevent recurrences...
...HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (NBC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). Peter Marshall hosts a new game show played more for pleasure than profit, featuring Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie and Abby Dalton as regulars. Premi...
...craftsmen on earth work with a greater sense of pride and tradition than the 39 French weavers who today make up the Manufacture des Gobelins. In an old blackened building on the outskirts of Paris whose tradition dates back to the 15th century, they keep 17 high-warp looms busy, moving their shuttles by hand much as their forefathers did in the Middle Ages. Production is slow, averaging only 20 sq. ft. per weaver annually, but the tapissiers know that what they turn out is recognized throughout the world as the finest in tapestry...