Word: project
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Misnamed Project. Why has the U.S. failed to make an adequate national response to the challenge of space? The failure traces not to a lack of technological skill but to a lack of vision. In the confusion of U.S. space programs, the bulk of the blame can be laid upon no single person-except perhaps the man whose responsibility it is to boss the whole show: President Eisenhower...
...launching site elsewhere on the earth, and U.S. missiles appear to be about as fit for that job as their Soviet counterparts. But in concentrating on closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project in mid-1955, as part of the International Geophysical year effort, the Administration settled for a minimal, low-priority program, misnamed Project Vanguard. In retrospect, it was no wonder that the U.S.S.R. got into space first...
...rather as Vice President of all the U.S. He would even prefer not to announce his candidacy during the early-bird New Hampshire primary next March, but he may be forced to if New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller files against him. Until then, Nixon will continue to project himself as a national leader who has dealt and can continue to deal with Nikita Khrushchev...
Bard continued its study during the 1958-59 year when the pilot study was going on, and finally decided to modify the project considerably from the original arrangement of arbitrarily assigned quarters of work and vacation. Last July, James H. Case, President of Bard, announced that a new schedule had been adopted for the current academic year. Instead of using a pure four quarter program, Bard will maintain its two fifteen-week semesters, and add two half-semesters, one in the summer and one in the winter...
Keppel said the School is "currently seeking funds" for the project, particularly from foundations and corporations. Because of the Program for Harvard College and the low income of its alumni, Keppel said the School's soliciting power is limited...