Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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That employment meant the U-2 program at Lockheed. It meant the rigorous training of a modern-day espionage intelligence agent who had first of all to be a fine pilot, whose intricate instruments would do the actual work for him. Powers learned the tightlipped, laconic line of the secret agent. After he and his wife moved to Turkey, he convinced his parents that he was doing only weather work, that he never flew closer than 100 miles to the borders of Russia, that life in Adana was long repetitious periods of boredom between infrequent flights...
Amid the excitement about the U2, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty read to newsmen an announcement that, against the background of rumblings in Moscow, sounded deliberately provocative. President Eisenhower, said the announcement, had approved a massive boost, from $10 million to $66 million, in funds for Project Vela, a program of research on detection of underground nuclear tests-and Vela would include, "where necessary, nuclear explosions." Largely because of the awkward timing, the word buzzed far and wide that the President, in reaction to the shooting down of the U-2 and Nikita Khrushchev's tough talk, had decided...
...British-Russian test-ban conference in Geneva early last week, Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin, on instructions from Moscow, unexpectedly dropped his longtime insistence that any East-West program of research on underground test detection would have to be carried out solely with conventional explosives, agreed to include a "strictly limited number" of nuclear explosions. Viewed in the light of Tsarapkin's concession and the previous history of the test-ban negotiations, Project Vela seemed entirely peaceable...
...better have a look." That was a month ago, when the hot election-year winds began to fan the long-smoldering campaign for federal medical aid for the aged. Since then, under Vice President Richard Nixon's direction, the Administration has been hurriedly putting together a medical-aid program to compete with the highly publicized Democratic Forand bill (TIME, May 9), which calls for compulsory old-age medical insurance hitched to increases in the social security tax. Last week Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming displayed a package neatly tagged "Medicare," which, when unwrapped, looked as much like...
...Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid," and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that the states would have a hard time ever making it work. Medicare neatly defused the political bomb contained in the Forand bill. But all those who had an interest in a sound program hoped that Congress would not try to put together a slapdash measure from a number of different plans, but would wait until after the election...