Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corps is seeking to develop the campus activities to satisfy numerous conquests from colleges throughout the country, William A. Delano, counsel to the organization, told college editors at the press conference with Corps officials yesterday...
...result, the Army was slow in developing the weapons for its historic mission: fighting on the ground. Item: the Army needed only three years to create the Jupiter missile, but required twelve years to develop the M-14 rifle. Item: the Army needed nine years to develop the M-60 machine gun, which only now is beginning to replace World War II models. Item: the Army, after seven years of work, is just now beginning to get the M-60 tank, the answer to the Russians' T-54, which appeared in 1952. But Army tank experts fully expect that...
Citizens of the Soviet farm belt apparently either ignore orders or embarrass everyone by following them to the letter. In a speech last June in Central Asia, Khrushchev cried: "Comrades, you should do everything to develop herds of horses for meat. I don't need to tell you that horse meat is tasty and nourishing." A Tashkent newspaper last week complained that some Uzbek farmers had taken Khrushchev at his word and had rushed 18 thoroughbreds and three pedigreed stallions straight from the local race track to the slaughterhouse...
Surgeons, who have been trying for a quarter-century to develop an effective treatment for the commonest form of heart attack-a coronary occlusion-learned in Chicago last week of a daring and original method devised by a young Harvard researcher. The method is to hook the patient to a pump that beats out-of-step with the heart's own beat, to create the most favorable conditions for the heart to develop substitute channels of circulation around the area of the occlusion (the shutdown in one of the heart wall's own arteries...
...Russians' new attitude toward disarmament, according to Sohn, can be attributed to their being "as scared as we are" over the dangers of nuclear war. The Soviet Union, he said, is eager to settle the arms question before the Red Chinese develop atomic weapons, as it would be easier for the Russians to persuade" Mao to agree to an arms ban before the Chinese establish a nuclear stockpile than after. It can be reasonably estimated that the Chinese will have such a stockpile within the next three years, he said...