Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Johnson, and his campaign manager. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, argued that Congress could not possibly complete its legislative program before next week's Democratic Convention. "Anyone who thinks we can finish up the business now before the House and Senate by the middle of next week," grumped Mr. Sam, "is a legislative idiot." Any legislative idiot who believed the same thing, chimed in Lyndon Johnson, was either a "phony or a hypocrite." Yet scores of Congressmen, Senators and other politicos thought that fellow Texans Johnson and Rayburn had just possibly planned it that way. Looming congressional action on such...
...Foundation. Since its inception in 1948, the foundation has spent $13.5 million on a dozen homes and hospitals for the mentally retarded in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and California. This year $10 million is being spent recruiting eminent doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists to work on a dramatic new research program. Bobby is the president but Sarge Shriver is the managing director of the foundation and each of the brothers and brothers-in-law is a member of the board, but the prime movers of the foundation come from the distaff side: Pat Lawford runs the West Coast operations, Eunice Shriver...
...Approved by both houses and sent to the President was a $40 billion defense appropriation, $661 million above Eisenhower's budget request for fiscal 1961. The compromise bill kept intact the Senate's broad program of space and missile buildup, cut 3% across the board from Pentagon procurement, at House insistence, for a $400 million saving...
...Home Abroad. Keynote of the new program was that the building should be modern but related to the culture and style of the country in which it was to be built. Designers were expected to travel to the sites, familiarize themselves with the climate and customs, local construction methods and materials. The results were dramatic. Under the impact of foreign cultures, many architects were inspired to new departures from modern architecture's dogmatic restraints, evolved a host of lively new concepts to create buildings that are graciously at home in the community, friendly and yet dignified...
Summer sessions at Harvard began in 1871, when Professor Asa Gray instructed students in botany. This year marks the 35th continuous year, since a full-fiedged teaching program did not start until...