Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...candidates as tacticians. Nixon kept off the stage as much as possible during the short session of Congress, did his work behind the scenes. Instead of trying to beat the Democrats at their own welfare-legislation game, he showed his tactical skill by concentrating on balking the Democratic program. With Dwight Eisenhower's help, he welded the outnumbered Republican band in the Senate into a disciplined defensive force, not strong enough to push legislation through, but strong enough, with help from Southern Democrats, to frustrate Kennedy's political game...
...season for that." On the roll call, 19 Democrats, mostly Southerners, deserted Kennedy; only a single Republican, New Jersey's Case, deserted Nixon. Then the Senate proceeded to pass a modest bill providing medical aid only for "needy" old people, in a joint federal-state program to be administered by the individual states. After a few nicks by a Senate-House conference, the bill got through the House in fair shape to escape a presidential veto...
Last week Jerrie's strange disappearance was explained in Stockholm by Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, chairman of the Special Committee on the Life Sciences for Project Mercury, the U.S. astronaut program. Jerrie Cobb had spent her "vacation" in Albuquerque, N. Mex. undergoing a brutal battery of 75 separate physical and psychological tests. She was jabbed with an electric needle, rocked back and forth on a tilting table to test her circulation. Her sense of balance was measured by squirting cold water into her ear canals to induce dizziness. Psychologists peppered her with 195 questions (sample: "Do you wish...
...shotput, the U.S. whales will wage a private war that will likely produce the most fascinating field event on the program. Back for a try at his third gold medal is California's Parry O'Brien, patriarch of the herd at 28. whose best effort this year (63 ft. 5 in.) nonetheless stands a poor third to that of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long (64 ft. 6½ in.) and Kansas' Bill Nieder, 26. the world record holder (65 ft. 10 in.). As the equalizer. O'Brien counts on his imposing reputation...
...director of petroleum and mineral affairs: "It is a plot by the oil companies, not even remotely justified by the Russian challenge." When the Arab Petroleum Congress meets in Beirut in October, it is expected to press for a bigger share of the profits, move ahead with its own program to expand pipelines, build refineries, operate a tanker fleet...