Word: progress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Inc. for space-rocket engines with thrusts of 1,000,000 lbs. or more; pushed a man-in-space undertaking, Project Mercury, that is scheduled for announcement this month. But despite the flurry of projects, the U.S. has made disappointingly little progress toward deciding on large, long-range space objectives and creating organizations to carry them...
Open Season. In his welcoming speech, Emperor Haile Selassie insisted that "economic and political progress should go hand in hand." For the next few days it was open season on the Europeans. Outvoted 9 to 6, they got not one single office on the commission. France in particular was constantly scolded for its policy in Algeria. Sometimes the Africans even began squabbling among themselves. But just when the commission seemed about to be killed off before ever getting started, the delegates began to settle down and work together...
...been thinking about it a great deal and I just figure the new government deserves a right start." Answered Eisenhower: "We all earnestly hope, as you do, that the people of that friendly country, so close to us in geography and sentiment, will through freedom find peace, stability and progress...
Much of this progress has come under President Beise, 60, a Minnesota doctor's son who is as calm and unruffled as the late Bank of America Founder A. P. Giannini was irascible and temperamental. Beise (rhymes with icy) joined the Bank of America in 1936 at Giannini's invitation after an early career in banking, took over as president in 1954. So wrapped up is he in his job that he has given up all outside hobbies (except gardening). His chief task has been to transform the bank from the temperamental, one-man bailiwick of autocratic...
...guesses that the poorhouse fair will erupt in an ugly show of violence toward Conner. Symbolically, it is the mock crucifixion of a false Christ. Hungering for the bread of understanding, the old people had been fed the cold tin plates of social progress. Updike unfolds his parable with stylistic elegance. But, too polite to talk about the sin of pride, he gradually throws away his book's sense of purpose...