Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Old October. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany swung less wildly but he pulled no punches. He jeered at the Administration's balanced budget and "tight money" policy, turned defense expert to proclaim that the balanced budget is "weakening the national defense program." His "program for action to put America back to work": 1) new legislation to "cushion the shock" of unemployment and "safeguard purchasing power," 2) a vast, Government-sponsored building program, 3) "justified wage increases" and a shorter work week "to spread the available supply of jobs...
...Guevara, commander of Havana's La Cabana Fortress, who joined a militia of Arbenz Communists in Guatemala; Army Commander in Chief Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, who spent 1952-53 studying in Prague and Budapest; Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), boss of the army information program; Major Manuel Pineiro, commander of Oriente and supervisor of a secret training center in Santiago, where anti-American propaganda is used to indoctrinate officer candidates...
...local show for one of its top awards. Shown only over Chicago's independent WGN-TV (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m.), The Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition as one of the top children's programs of 1958 and the further distinction of being the only program on an independent station on the list...
...possible solution to these problems, Ford suggested that the program might be confined to Freshmen who have advanced placement. These students would then have the option of taking seminars or tutorials in the field in which they have advanced placement. The seminars might be taken in lieu of middle group courses for which advanced placement students are now eligible...
What is needed is a positive and immediate program to reduce American unemployment, but so far neither political party has given its official blessing to any practical suggestions. In this category one would place a Federal standard for relief benefits, which now vary from $5 a week in Iowa and Kansas to $45 a week in New York and Alaska and from five weeks duration in Florida to thirty weeks in Pennsylvania. So far, the states have shown no desire to agree on such a standardization among themselves, and a Federally-legislated minimum, such as that envisioned by bills before...