Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Colombian politics. He plotted his revolution in Bogota's somber Jockey Club, where he brought the warring Liberals and Conservatives into a united front that eased Rojas out of office without a fight. Now midway through his four-year term, he has put across a belt-tightening stability program, cutting the foreign debt from $400 million to $170 million, holding the peso steady...
President Butterfield is still under standably cautious. "Can average American college students handle this freedom?" he muses. The evidence is not all in yet. But Wesleyan has certainly launched an embryo revolution. Says 20-year-old Larry Jones of Ames, Iowa: "This program has made me realize for the first time what education actually is. So many of the decorations are stripped away. We no longer complete an assignment and feel we've completed a day. This kind of education involves you-all the time...
...only one of Douglas' troubles. The phasing out of manned aircraft and quick changes in missile technology are leaving the company without a bread-and-butter contract. Items: ¶ The Thor program is fast ending...
Though there are firm orders (twelve units) for the Thor Delta, the production peak has been passed. The last Thor was delivered last month. ¶ The Air Force's Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, may eventually be a big program (some estimates put it well over $500 million), but it is still in the early development stages and is by no means large enough to fill the hole left by Thor...
...133B transport program, which involved well under 100 planes, is due to phase out in 1961, and the A3D attack-plane program is due to run out next January, although orders for the A4D attack plane will run for several years. ¶ The anti-missile Nike Zeus has an uncertain future, but the antiaircraft Nike Hercules is still an important part of Douglas business...