Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year-old Annapolisman who spun the best of the flying-saucer yarns, was chief of the Navy's guided-missiles unit at the White Sands Proving Ground, N.Mex. While there, he sent a report to Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, then in charge of the guided-missile program, that he had sighted a flying saucer at White Sands; he calculated its diameter at 105 ft. Recalled Admiral Gallery last week: "I sent back a message, 'What kind of whisky are you drinking out there?' The Navy has not had, nor does it have now, anything resembling flying...
...spraying DDT to fight an outbreak of malaria. WHO workers were aboard river boats plying the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland, giving boatmen examinations and treatments for venereal diseases which had been, carried from country to country. In Shanghai, a WHO nurse kept up a tuberculosis nursing program that had been started long before the Red armies overran China...
...over Europe, WHO teams were carrying out the largest immunization program in history in an effort to cut down the ravages of tuberculosis. So far, almost 10 million children have been given BCG vaccine. The campaign has begun in Africa, the Near East and the Orient; eventually, 40 to 50 million children will be inoculated...
...Symphony No. 4 last spring. Picked by new Conductor Walter Hendl (TIME, Dec. 26) to compose the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's $1,000 commission-piece for the year, Mennin had come through with Symphony No. 5. In Dallas' last concert of the season, No. 5 shared the program with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Mennin's short three-movement work did not have the "Eroica's" earth-shaking vitality, but it did have plenty of vim & vigor...
...children, accustomed to having their radio programs start off with the rattle of machine-gun fire or the whine of airplane propellers, might have trouble believing the news. A new BBC show for British moppets, called Listen With Mother, is a thoroughgoing success. The program begins each day with the calm, reassuring voice of onetime Schoolmistress Jean Sutcliffe inquiring: "Are you sitting quite comfortably...