Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...evening, dressed in a white jacket, short black pants, white socks and black shoes, he made his way to Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts, where he conducted the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, Egmont Overture and Third Piano Concerto. At another point in the program, with a slight bow to the royal box, Giuseppe...
Most of the rise can be attributed to a loosening of purse strings in the federal road-building program. Washington has allowed states to take all the grants in this three-month quarter that they would normally get in six months, pumping an extra $718 million into the economy this year. (The cost is divided 90% federal, 10% state on interstate highways, fifty-fifty on other roads.) Most states have their share of the cash they must put up because the increased number of cars (latest count: 57,100,000) has boosted gasoline tax revenues, e.g., Virginia will raise...
Costs are down partly because contractors expanded their equipment to get ready for the Federal Government's enlarged program. But it was cut back in 1959 after the Bureau of Public Road, depleted its funds with heavy spending to combat the 1958 recession. Some contractors needed work to pay for their expensive equipment, and they began making low bids, often at cost, to get the work. They complain bitterly about the price-chopping competition. One large builder says his profits are down 50% since 1957: another says his "are so slim they are almost negligible...
Dean Monro, Elliot J. Berg, instructor in Economics, and Paul E. Sigmund, instructor in Government, discussed in a wide-ranging two-hour session the genesis of the "peace corps" idea, the needs of the emergent nations that would be served, and the specific pilot program under consideration at the University...
...youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development...