Word: virtualization
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Michael Stewart, a virtual unknown who was hurriedly thrust into the post of Foreign Secretary in place of Gordon Walker, has proved a happy surprise...
...organizing Peasant Leagues, some 50,000 strong, to take over the land by force. Then the Roman Catholic Church jumped in, set up schools to teach reading and writing, started its own labor unions-at risk of rupture with the powerful landlords who had long held the peasants in virtual peonage. The government, in turn, pressed ahead with a new federal agency, Sudene (for Superintendency of Northeast Development), which was created in 1959 to direct an ambitious long-range development program aimed at expanding agricultural production and pushing industrialization, the nine-state area's only real hope...
Yale's program, in contrast to existing foreign study programs, calls for a virtual furlough from academic discipline. In contrast to Harvard's leave of absence, it integrates that furlough with courses and tutorial when the student returns. It "consciously breaks the sequence of testable learning," says President Brewster, "not under the shadow of opprobrium or for a fancy 'grand tour' but as part of a programmed educational pattern which splices experience with learning." The essential feature of Yale's program is neither its $300,000 nor its provision for a year in underdeveloped areas. It is rather than...
...week, on the tenth anniversary of the approval of the Salk vaccine for general use, congressional leaders presented Dr. Salk with a joint resolution of the Senate and House expressing the nation's gratitude. The U.S. Public Health Service's Surgeon General, Dr. Luther Terry, called the virtual stamping-out of polio by the Salk vaccine and the live-virus polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Albert Sabin and approved in 1961, "a historical triumph of preventive medicine-unparalleled in history...
...turned up), Ho's country could be reduced to an even more dire penury than it now suffers by a mere week of U.S. air strikes. Communist that he is, Ho doubtless dreads the thought of massive aid with manpower from Red China, for it would mean virtual occupation by his vast neighbor. But he presumably has got Lyndon Johnson's message that the U.S. is staunchly committed to the cause of freedom in Southeast Asia...