Word: programing
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Searching Re-Evaluation. Not since John Kennedy first proclaimed Apollo has the entire space program undergone so searching a reevaluation. NASA's manned flight chief, George Mueller, has even asked veteran newsmen: "Now you tell me how we can sell the country the space program." Other NASA officials fear that too many Americans view the lunar landings not as a beginning but as an end. All the old questions are reappearing with increasing frequency in public debate: Does man have a place in space? Should he establish a base on the moon? Should he explore the planets...
...four-man presidential task force headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew hopes to answer these questions in a report that is scheduled to be issued on Sept. 1. Lee DuBridge, President Nixon's science adviser and a member of the group,* has promised a "balanced program." What that means is not certain, but for their part, NASA officials have let it be known that they will be quite content to settle for some sort of balance between the practical and the visionary. Last week, in a report from its own advisory committee on goals...
...sensors for acquiring information, a built-in memory and a computer better than our best machine, and a remarkably versatile capability for action and physical operations." Wernher Von Braun, the father of the German V-2 and a pioneer in the U.S. space effort, is blunter. "The space program is the first time we could keep the cutting edge of science and technology sharp without having a major war," he declares. "Goddammit, does it take another war to get technology up to a higher plateau...
...Hockey Sticks. Moscow has begun an ambitious building program for leisure-time sport centers, including an Olympic-size saltwater pool. "Our goal," explains Anatoly Eremin, chairman of the Moscow City Council of Sports Societies, "is to provide a sport center for each collective of workers from 500 to 1,000 people." Official spending on hotels and other travel facilities has more than doubled since 1966, and travel is cheap when arranged through the Trade Union Council's group tours...
Mental Band-Aids. Founded in January, Ann Arbor's storefront clinic is one of several thousand such emergency-treatment centers now operating throughout the U.S. Under a federal program launched in 1963, this census will expand even further. Their approach to mental illness seems to contradict much of prevailing psychiatric theory. Crisis intervention assumes, for instance, that the deeply disturbed patient can be snatched at the last minute from committable insanity-and that the last moment may be the best time to try. It argues that relief of the immediate symptoms of profound emotional stress is far more urgent...