Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring came and still no progress had been made. Then, more than a third of the senior class signed a letter regretfully stating that they would not contribute financially to the college as long as the administration continued to refuse students a voice in questions vital to them. It was an extremely effective form of blackmail. Radcliffe, in the red for some time now, has launched a massive fund-raising campaign and is of course counting on foundation support. But foundations pay close attention to statistics of alumni-giving...
Logue outlined three principal areas where action must be taken in heed of Riot Commission warnings to stop the United State's progress toward apartheid...
...from the look of things. "We did not progress a single millimeter," said a North Vietnamese spokesman after two sessions that consumed seven hours and 50 minutes last week. Nor is the appointment of hard-lining Le Duc Tho, a member of Hanoi's Politburo who is due in Paris this week as an "adviser" on the talks, expected to do much to break the impasse...
...merely a vote-getting ploy? Are these disparate elements capable of ballot-box cohesion? It would seem unlikely. Nixon himself concedes only "differences of emphasis, not of fundamentals; differences in the speed of change, not so much in the direction of change." Yet the pace of progress is itself a key issue. Black militants-and black moderates, for that matter-have been increasingly dissatisfied with gradualism. It was the demand for "Freedom now.'" that motivated black militance in the first place, while many of the whites Nixon talks about are horrified at being rushed...
...novel technique, they organized Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The therapy is based on a highly disputed hypothesis. According to the Doman-Delacato theory, impairment of speech, vision and manual skills can be caused by the interruption of a child's normal progress from creeping to crawling to walking. Discarding standard evaluation systems and using an elaborate diagnostic scheme of their own, Doman and Delacato classify retarded children in three questionable "profile" groups: 1) truly brain-injured. 2) psychotic, 3) genetically brain-deficient. They treat children in any of these groups who have presumably...