Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...been worsening almost since the first day of independence in 1958. "The government and the Assembly are nothing," said Touré last September. "They exist only to implement decisions of the party." Last year Communist agents from abroad flocked in to help with Red barter deals and aid programs, which Touré was happy to accept as an alternative to bankruptcy. Now Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Hungarians and even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced the French franc with...
...relation with small (1,254 fulltime students), distant, little-known Oklahoma City University. Under "The Great Plan," as O.C.U. proudly calls it, M.I.T. will completely revamp the school's curriculum. Supervised by five M.I.T.-recruited professors, O.C.U. next fall will put about 25 bright freshmen in an honors program of high-caliber English, foreign languages, physics and math. By the time the program spreads to all students, O.C.U. hopes to be producing education that matches M.I.T...
...Prague (May 12-June 3). Now in its 15th year, it remains the only Eastern European festival as lavish as its Western counterparts. Highlights of its month-long program: Mikhail Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla, a less well-known but far better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
Spoleto (June 8-July 10). Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds rounds into its third year with its finances noticeably sagging but its programing as lively as ever. The opener is a new production of La Boheme, directed by Menotti and conducted by Thomas Schippers. Also on the program: three works by the newly formed Spoleto ballet company, Cherubini's rarely heard Missa Solemnis...
...Systems. The basic research phase of the U.S. space program is well along, and the "use" systems are just now beginning to come breathtakingly into their own. Midas II is the forerunner of a system whose functional value as a deterrent against war is obvious. The Navy's Transit I-B is the exciting prototype for a system that will give the U.S. an all-weather navigational accuracy unmatched in human history. Developed by a pair of young Johns Hopkins scientists who studied the radio Doppler effects of Russia's Sputnik I and applied them to practical purposes...