Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filling process has been slow. There are more than 300 slots at the level of Assistant Secretary or above in the twelve Cabinet departments, and ten days before inauguration only a dozen had been filled. No one is seriously worried, however. As Nixon Spokesman Ronald Ziegler told a doubting newsman last week, "We will be able to run the Government...
...long overdue. The various anti-poverty programs, while uneven in efficacy and wisdom, were the beginning of a necessary break with the dole approach. In the foreign field, the continuing torment of Viet Nam overshadowed significant accomplishments. Most notable were agreements with the Russians and the beginning of the process that could lead to realistic arms control. The Glassboro summit with Aleksei Kosygin helped start this movement...
DIFFERENT sorts of problems present themselves when the blind student reaches college. David, only a freshman, is still in the process of adjusting to University life. Living in Wigglesworth, right in the Yard, he finds no difficulty in getting around with a cane, which he claims is both simpler and easier than a seeing eye dog. A prospective English major, David so far has been able to obtain most of the books he needs in Braille, and uses only one reader (a person who reads to a blind student) a week. He also makes use of Talking Books--a program...
...many new inventions that make life easier for the blind, such as tape recorders and Braille machines. IBM recently came out with an electric typewriter with a regular keyboard but which types in Braille. With this any sighted person can Braille a text, without knowledge of Braille. A new process has been developed, by which fifty copies of a Braille page can be made at once, facilitating the printing of Braille books. And then there are the inventions of the future, such as the electronic cane. But these are all external crutches, so to speak; what the blind need more...
...take another example: censorship is not an absolute evil. If it is discovered that portraying violence on screen has harmful effects, it is one's social duty to require that violence on TV be censored. Every person, in every specific case, has to go through with this process of balancing the good against the bad and coming to a decision to act in a certain way. If this is a frighteningly vague guideline, it is so of necessity. No one can evade the responsibility of choosing a position on the basis of the facts of a particular situation by taking...