Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Program of Recovery. In New York City, Robert McKinney was arrested when he was caught running a $50-a-day bookmaking business from his sickbed in Triboro Hospital...
...Labs' Walter H. Brattain (1956 prize-co-inventor of the transistor) said that before World War II the U.S. was "a nation that offered asylum to independent and nonconformist thinking individuals," but after the war the Government went on classifying "anything that might possibly aid an enemy"-a program that discouraged "top scientific men who might otherwise have come to our country." Concluded Brattain: "I feel very strongly that most restrictions done in the name of national security turn out to be foolish . . . Don't kill the baby to protect it from the kidnapers...
...before Municipal Judge Searle Sandeen of Stillwater, who listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public schools." Electrical Engineering Professor Henry Hartig praised "the discipline and memorizing" that Tommy...
...responsible for the nation's ICBM program are both ex-Air Force officers. Convair's Atlas team is headed by J. R. ("Jim") Dempsey, 37, West Pointer and onetime Air Force lieutenant colonel; Martin's Titan group is bossed by Howard Merrill, 38, a former Air Force captain. Both men made their reputations after going into industry, not before. They recognized, as do many career officers, that promotions are slow in peacetime, and a bright young man can often do better for himself-and in some ways, better for his country-by putting aside his uniform...
...other industries, and steel companies complain that their present good showing is largely the result of stockpiling in anticipation of a strike. Their big argument is that profits are not even enough to pay for expansion and modernization; U.S. Steel alone has borrowed $600 million for its expansion program in the last five years. It is largely this investment, rather than any effort on the part of unionists, says industry, that has increased efficiency and profits...