Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...dislike of Adlai Stevenson, and at the same time, takes a neatly timed swipe at Stevenson's chances for the 1960 nomination. He agreed to support Stevenson in 1952, he says, but he was sorry afterward. Stevenson's campaign, Truman claims, drifted so far from the Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently as I could, to tell this man-so gifted in speech and intellect, and yet apparently so uncertain of himself...
Seeing an opportunity for himself in Castro's sprawling program of land reform, Morgan talked the Agriculture Ministry into giving him charge of a fish hatchery. He raised carp, sunfish and black bass, read up on frogs, soon was ready to expand. Taking over 430 acres of a confiscated ranch along Lake Ariguanabo, Morgan spent $40,000 of the ministry's money digging ditches to hold his frogs, another $30,000 stocking the farm with frogs caught by peasants in the streams and marshes of western Cuba...
...whimsical entry for la grippe. In many areas, coroners had to invoke police aid to force doctors to make out death certificates-and quite a few were signed "Paul Bacon." Who was Monsieur Bacon? None other than France's Minister of Labor, whose department administers the program...
...properly, the satellite will curve down into the denser air, where it will be slowed further by friction. If the retrorocket is fired in the wrong direction, it will speed the satellite up and put it on an orbit with a higher apogee. The U.S. Air Force Discoverer satellite program has suffered from just such aiming errors...
Many in both Wall Street and Washington still felt that some rise in defense was likely. The Defense Department's statement last week-that no increase in defense spending is needed-got a cool reception from Congress. Such plans as Army modernization and the Polaris program should be reviewed, said Georgia's Senator Richard Russell even if it adds "a few billions" to the defense budget...