Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Shortly after the first Russian Sputnik soared into orbit in October 1957, Gates picked up the enthusiasm of the Navy's Polaris missile boosters, fought the civilian battles for a speedup in the Polaris program through the Defense Department and the White House. As a result, the first battle-ready Polaris sub put to sea three years ahead of the original schedule (TIME, Nov. 28). With Russia ahead of the U.S. in land-based ballistic missiles, the U.S. would be facing a formidable weapons gap in the early 1960s had Polaris not been pushed...
With a single-mindedness so intense that one participant described it as "ferocity," Anderson brushed aside the promising beginnings of the new billion-dollar German foreign-aid program (TIME, Nov. 28). Foreign aid, he told Adenauer and Erhard, was "not urgent"; what the U.S. needed was cash, and it needed it faster than any foreign-aid program could deliver. Anderson followed this up with further demands that Germany 1) start paying immediately a good part of the U.S.'s present share (37%) of the cost of jointly run NATO facilities such as pipelines, depots, etc.; 2) start easing immediately...
...doctors, before World War II, wanted to study in Germany. In theory, hiring foreign doctors for U.S. hospitals is mutually advantageous: the hospitals flesh out their staffs to adequate size; foreign physicians add to their medical skills and go back to improve medical care in their native lands. The program won the support of both the U.S. and foreign governments...
...felt that by scheduling the program the day after Thanksgiving," said David Lowe, producer of last week's "Harvest of Shame" on CBS Reports, "we could stress the fact that much of the food cooked for Thanksgiving throughout the country was picked by migratory workers. We hoped that the pictures of how these people live and work would shock the consciousness of the nation...
What made the Lowe-Murrow hour a moving, muckraking masterpiece was the drumfire of interviews with Charles B. Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. While the verbose Shuman found himself becoming the program's unwitting heavy as he painfully elaborated his foot-dragging conservatism, Mitchell emerged as an impassioned reformer. Extemporizing on "the shame of America" and the personal "blot on my conscience" he spoke bluntly of the power of the farm lobby and noted that what he called "the excluded Americans" had no voice in Congress, no organized force...