Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig...
...want to express our sincere gratitude for your excellent program "To Heal a Nation" [Jan. 24]. We hope and urge that you measure and criticize the present Administration's performance on the basis of its serious commitment to the legislative enactment of this program for social and domestic betterment...
...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
...graduation ceremony, which included students from the IBM-sponsored academy nearby, was a demonstration of the program's potential. Patricia Bernard, 18, addressed the school's sponsors and teachers in her invocation: "We've been given the impression that you all had only one big dream-a dream to help those of us who had almost given up hope. You boosted our morale and gave many of us the strength we needed to gain back our willpower to learn and our anxiety to make something of ourselves. I hope that each and every one of us graduating...
While work on new U.S. offensive missiles continued, the Russians accelerated expansion of their attack force at a faster rate than Washington had anticipated, and had begun deploying their own ABM system around Moscow. The Soviet catch-up drive, together with China's nuclear development program and the approaching 1968 election, finally pushed the Johnson Administration into the ABM competition. Under Johnson, the U.S. planned a so-called "thin" ABM system, at an estimated cost of $5 billion, to protect against a relatively primitive Chinese missile attack in the 1970s. However, many believe that the project, once begun, would inevitably...