Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...generals snapped quickly into line, toned down their talk of gaps and lags -at least in public. General Thomas White, the Air Force chief, called Tommy Power's zeal "unfortunate," then muted his own appeals for more funds. While he also favored an air-alert program and greater speed in building the B70 supersonic bomber, White said that his own responsibilities were "relatively narrow" and that his requests had been refused by "my superiors" (i.e., Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army...
...weeks ahead, with a cast ranging from Richard (Have Gun) Boone reading from Bret Harte to Eleanor Roosevelt reading from Kipling's Just So Stories, the Reading Out Loud show might well achieve the unique distinction of becoming a program that measures its success by the number of viewers it turns away from video and back to books...
...expanded enormously. The Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association of St. Paul, founded in 1938 with only $30,000 in capital, today has a net worth of more than $40 million, largely finances the powerful Farmers Union, which runs the propaganda machine behind the scandalous farm-subsidy program. F.U.G.T.A. pays no federal income tax. It holds 80% of its members' share of the profits until they quit farming or die. F.U.G.T.A. has not only expanded its own elevators and feed mills, but bought out privately owned, tax-paying businesses unable to compete. Since 1950, F.U.G.T.A.'s annual reports show...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup appears in the story of Tarawa, the battle in which he won the Medal of Honor. Also on the program: Kiyoshi Ohta, one of 17 Japanese who survived (from a total force...
...increase in expenditures for the farm program...