Word: project
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole program will run to $3.5 billion by 1965. A Defense Department budget slash last week killed off plans for the last far-out supersonic interceptor, the Mach3 North American F-108. Air Force flyboys trust and hope that the $2.4 billion savings will help support the B70 project when it comes under the budget fire of the pushbutton corps...
...main job is basic and applied research to further the U.S. push into space. One laboratory investigates the behavior of fuels, plastics and other materials at temperatures simulating space's icy cold. Long-range planners devise methods to map the far side of the moon. Biggest single project is Vega, the U.S.'s most advanced space vehicle. Expected to fly in about 18 months, the first Vega will use an Atlas D as its first stage. The second stage, powered by a General Electric X405 rocket engine, is intended to place a 2½-ton satellite...
...This project is expected to increase the individual opportunity which the average student fails to receive in a class of thirty, to cut down on repetition in the classroom, and to impart greater conversational skills than can now be done in a classroom four hours a week...
...there is another very important aspect of this flexibility: it allows for a certain amount of stratification in the teaching profession. The educators connected with the Team-Teaching Project feel that some "differentiation of prestige and function among the teachers" might increase initiative, and thus the efficiency of instruction, while at the same time dignifying the role of the superior teacher...
...whole the SUPRAD project is an attempt to bridge the gap which so many educators feel exists today between theoretical research on education in the graduate schools of the nation's universities and practical application of these theories in the elementary and high schools. The SUPRAD organization is performing a new and healthy role in linking the theories of educators to the practice of teaching