Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cholesterol [Jan. 10] shocked me. The ultimate civil liberty in a democratic society is the power over one's own life and death, and I cannot see why the Government should restrict cholesterol any more than it restricts equally "lethal" alcohol and tobacco. Let us have a program of education, by all means, but allow us to "choose our poison." You may have nicotine, and I'll take bacon and butter...
...nation's most impressive resources: the American skill in managing great enterprises, whether in war or peace. The Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb, and the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt shattered Europe after World War II, remain classic examples of this talent. Today's Apollo program is yet an other demonstration of how seemingly insoluble problems can yield to a systematic approach. The question naturally arises: why can the same skills not be used on the same scale to end poverty and traffic congestion, to clean up pollution and save the cities...
...pattern of society already foreshadows this future role of Government. The U.S. now functions through a network of organizations in which Government, industry, labor and the universities are intertwined and obviously will become more so. In the Apollo program, NASA defined the mission, planned the flights and recruited astronauts; M.I.T. contributed to the design of the navigation system, North American Rockwell Corporation built the vehicle, and Pan American services the Cape Kennedy base. George Champion, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, believes that if private business addressed itself to satisfying the education and housing needs of the poor it could...
Plug in people. The center's version of the Constitution recognizes this collision between 18th century ideals and 20th century realities. Its language is businesslike. The fel lows see it as a tool that, like a computer, is complex, quick, and has change literally built into the program...
...course of the entire Dialogue Program, Stan Chess, Journalism major at Cornell, also will probe issues with Mr. Doan; as will Mark Bookspan, a Chemistry major at Ohio State, and David G. Clark, in graduate studies at Stanford, with Mr. DeYoung; and similarly, Arthur M. Klebanoff, in Liberal Arts at Yale, and Arnold Shelby, Latin American Studies at Tulane, with Mr. Galvin...