Word: program
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...John Glenn was an astronaut in the Mercury space program with...
...more than 60,000 youngsters. These schools have documented statistically significant increases in academic achievements. By developing intellectual strength and stamina, students increase their mental power and endurance--whether they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages, how to read music, run a four-cylinder engine, program a computer or balance a ledger. By strengthening our students' thinking abilities today, we can enrich their lives tomorrow. WILLIAM E. BROCK, Chairman Intellectual Development Systems, Inc. Annapolis...
...Westin expressed concern to colleagues in ABC's entertainment division. Last week East Coast newsies said Westin assured them that the Flight 800 portion of Declassified has been axed. But trust no one: Stone says 800 will be part of his show. The public ABC line is that the program will air with warnings that the news division didn't produce it (a disclaimer that could boost ratings dramatically...
...possible that one so weary of being tagged a nut case will produce a journalistically sound program. "It's unbelievable how frightened some journalists are of anybody outside their profession digging around," Stone says. "Critics will say we're the conspiracy cranks, but on the contrary--if there's no conspiracy, fine." Stone understands, moreover, that the average viewer of network news is a candidate for Geritol: "We want to do the same thing as 60 Minutes but in a new kind of way that makes it hip." In other words, his show could delight us with dark possibilities...
...that John Glenn is safely back on terra firma, he and the rest of the Discovery crew are doing the best they can to maintain America?s renewed interest in the space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International...