Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...said Defense Secretary Thomas Gates. In April, a Central Intelligence Agency man briefed him on the program of flights, but nothing was said at that time, or during any subsequent conversations with State Department people, about postponing the flights. Such flights had never been suspended for any political reasons in the past; the only operative factors were weather conditions and military considerations...
...Flower Bed. A common saying among scientists is that if a science is free of controversy, it is a dead science. On that basis, the U.S. Air Force's Discoverer program is bubbling with life. Discoverer is expensive (just under $100 million this year), and it has thus far notably failed in achieving what has been billed as its great objective: recovering a re-entry capsule...
...been - a fact that fails to bother its sponsors. Says an Air Force officer involved in the program: "With the Discoverer, we sort of rigged our own public relations trap, because recovery was the last item on our laundry list of objectives. But Discoverer is really the test bed from which an awful lot of earth satellite systems will flower...
...telephone, is still fond of it as a basic tool. He would call a friend and "try to break him up," making tapes of the conversations. The tapes were so funny that local radio stations bought them as "ratings boosters" to help raise the level of disk-jockey programs. On last year's Emmy Award program his Lincoln phone call stopped the show...
Ending months of bickering, Roy T. Hurley, 63, resigned last week as president, chairman and director of the CurtissWright Corp. Hurley joined C.W. in 1949 when 16 of its 19 plants were idle, revitalized the ailing company. He slashed costs, ramrodded through a diversification program into electronics, plastics, nuclear reactors, rockets and ultrasonics. But in pushing diversification, he let his research and work on products coming off the line lag. Although the Wright turbo compound engine was standard on both the DC-7 and Super Constellation, it proved so unsatisfactory that airlines were not interested in Wright engines...