Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Challenge. Today Red China has diplomatic relations with 26 non-Communist countries, trade and economic ties with 45 more. Although its own economy barely makes ends meet, Peking even has a foreign-aid program of sorts. The planes into Red China are packed with foreign delegations from every corner of the globe: Cambodian educators to tour the schools, Japanese trade unionists to inspect the factories, South American left-wing journalists and youth leaders to see the banners and hear the speeches...
...Sumapaz, the two Red enclaves of backlands Bolshevism in Colombia have been in existence for years, making trouble for democracy in Latin America long before anyone heard of Fidel Castro. The rugged, roadless terrain offers little hindrance to guerrilla movements, while effectively blunting any military reprisal or concerted government program of building and social reform that might dilute Communist influence on the peasantry...
Higher Horizons. With Dan Schreiber in charge, New York has since launched a "Higher Horizons" program for 32,000 children in 13 junior high and 52 elementary schools. Using Schreiber as consultant, the Ford Foundation recently gave $1,000,000 to start similar programs in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Stirred by Nessfeness, other cities are well launched, notably Washington, where a project at Macfarland Junior High School makes one official gloat that "we may be actually discovering a new dimension in education." Last week, answering queries from Hawaii to Germany, Dan Schreiber said: "We want...
...need, says Monro, is coordination of all the talent hunters. Plaut of Nessfeness agrees. Last month he urged a coast-to-coast Higher Horizons program, costing up to $100 million, to be run by an agency patterned after the National Science Foundation. In Washington last week, top officials of the prestigious American Council on Education mulled ways to get Plaut's scheme started. As one of them put it: "Unlike gold, human talent is perishable. We can't let it lie in the hills until we get ready to mine...
Brooking no interference from advertiser or broadcaster during its seven seasons, the first five subsidized by the Ford Foundation, Omnibus saw a shifting list of 16 blue-chip sponsors (including the current one, Aluminium, Ltd.) pay for an average of only 70% of its time, and the program jockeyed uncomfortably between the three networks. The years also saw some memorable shows: Peter Ustinov playing "The Life of Samuel Johnson," Leonard Bernstein describing "What Makes Opera Grand," Joseph Welch pondering "Capital Punishment." The program had lived up to the credo of its imaginative producer, Robert Saudek: "I don't believe...