Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sooner would an Air Force general do a loop in a hurricane than reverse himself on a major weapons program-especially after billions have been invested, service prestige put on the line, business and political support generated all along the production line. But last week Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White spelled out for the House Appropriations Committee an Air Force proposal to slash $500 million out of the 1961 budget for air defenses against enemy bombers, apply the money to stepped-up construction of the Atlas and Minuteman ICBMs and the Midas "spy in the sky" satellite...
...engineering industries. And at war's end, warning that against the weight of Asia, Australians had "perhaps 25 years in which to justify our exclusive possession of this continent," Laborite Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell revived the slogan, "Populate or Perish." He won support for a costly immigration program that has brought in an average of more than 100,000 "New Australians" a year. In the process, Australia deliberately modified its old boast of being "more purely...
Harassed Defense Minister George Pearkes retired to a long-distance telephone huddle with the Pentagon, returned to the Commons with the assurance that while the Bomarc was being counted down in Washington, it still was not counted out. The $1 20 million left in the Bomarc program would provide 200 missiles for 10 to 13 bases, including Canada's; Washington was still prepared to pay two-thirds of the cost of the two Canadian bases. Canada was left with a nagging question: How useful will its Bomarcs...
...month ago. Columbia followed a fortnight later with The Madison Time, hired two teen-age demonstration teams, sent them out on tour to plug the new dance. Jocks who play the records on the air find themselves deluged with teenage mail. As far west as San Francisco, reported KEWB Program Director Bill Enis last week, the Madison is "picking up like gangbusters...
...honor of contributing to his column. These guest appearances, combined with his own fey wit, earned him a tidy salary-at one time $25,000 a year-and a wide following. The Adams circle grew by millions after he joined radio's renowned Information Please quiz program in 1938, along with Clifton Fadiman, John Kieran and Oscar Levant...