Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pushed. "Is he kidding?" asked Dirksen. As if to prove that someone is certainly kidding, the main item of congressional business at week's end was the resumption of a filibuster by a group of Senate Democratic liberals against an Administration bill to set up a corporation to develop and operate a space-satellite communications system...
...have dubbed Y-Dio-King of the Rhade. Nuttie first arrived in Viet Nam in 1959 with the International Voluntary Services, a U.S. welfare organization, picked up the Rhade tongue on his extensive motorcycle travels through montagnard territory. An agriculture graduate of Kansas State University, he helped the Rhade develop better methods of cultivation, learned their customs, wrote two studies on Rhade culture. This year he became a U.S. Army civilian employee, was given the formidable task of wooing the Rhade away from the Viet Cong...
From Atheists to Agnostics. Chief purpose of the Oslo congress was a discussion of long-range Humanist goals, and talk at the six-day session centered on the problem of how to develop a mature (meaning nonreligious) personality, and how Humanists could help preserve individual freedom in an overorganized world. The socially conscious delegates also thought about goals closer to hand, passed a resolution approving the antihunger work of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization as "a notable example of Humanist action." To abet the work of FAO, Humanists of the world were urged to work for better...
Scientific satellites may be built elsewhere, but they usually come to Goddard for final testing. As space scientists develop more ambitious creations that are harder to test under simulated space conditions, Goddard is getting ready for them with its nearly completed Space Environment Simulator. The Simulator can take into its belly a spidery satellite 40 ft. high and 28 ft. across. Then pumps will draw out the air, creating a hard vacuum just like that existing in space 250 miles high. The chamber's walls can be cooled to match the deathly cold of space, and a battery...
When an oilman named Cooper (Cyril Wheeler) planes into London with a case of smallpox, and some other seemingly unrelated cases develop, it becomes Terry-Thomas feverish chore to track down the carrier. In no time, several other plot strings become chronically entangled. Cooper's bride, Michele, played by a sensuous brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team...