Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointed to delay action. Some are appointed to build up support for a course of action already agreed on. But when Dwight Eisenhower put onetime Under Secretary of the Army William H. Draper Jr. in charge of a committee last November to survey the vast U.S. foreign-aid program, the roll call of blue-ribbon committee members * made it clear that the President wanted hard answers. Last week in the Draper committee's preliminary report, he got three that nobody quite expected. Said the committee...
...should stop thinking of mutual-assistance funds as stopgap measures, should put the mutual-security program on a permanent basis-it "is and will continue to be an essential tool" of foreign policy. "In our fascination with our own mistakes, and the constant use of foreign aid as a whipping boy, we may be gradually choking this vital feature of our national-security policy to death...
Incredibly, 24 hours after their mission returned from Moscow, West German Socialists proclaimed anew their program for winning German reunification by military concessions. But there were signs that a disillusioned realism was settling over the German Socialist leadership...
Several new projects at the College have already begun with funds previously given to the Program. All grades of the Faculty have received salary increases. Several gifts, notably an anonymous gift last year of $2 million from an alumnus who was himself a scholarship student, have helped to reinforce the financial aid resources for needy students...
Physical improvements such as offices for the new Department of Statistics and the renovation of Boylston Hall for a Modern Language Center have also resulted from the Program...