Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace was short-lived. A new wave of firebombings swept the town early this summer, forcing the resignation of Police Chief Carl Clutts. The new chief, William Petersen, made some progress toward cooling the conflict when he took away the deputy status that had been granted the White Hats. The group disbanded, but resurfaced almost immediately in a new organization, the United Citizens for Community Action, whose leader, Lumberman Robert Cunningham, is considered excessively racist even by local white supremacists...
...South Vietnamese divisions are to continue to improve, more effort must be put into retraining. Accordingly, the U.S. last July launched a program called "Dong Tien" (Progress Together), under which some U.S. troops have been working, eating, fighting-and at times dying-together with ARVN troopers. The program has so far produced encouraging results. Under U.S. tutelage, ARVN units are learning to call in artillery and air support quickly and precisely-something they rarely did in the past. The South Vietnamese have also begun conducting night patrols more aggressively. In one respect, at least, the ARVN can tutor the G.I.s...
...misfortunes. Then, in 1958, the National Foundation-March of Dimes, having conquered polio, turned its attention and resources to the problem of birth defects. Last week in The Hague, at the Foundation's third birth defects conference of the decade, 975 scientists from 35 countries listened to 194 progress reports and some clarion calls for a more massive offensive...
...consumer might think that there is no end in sight to runaway prices. Yet last week Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board told Congress that the nation is "at the tail end" of its siege of inflation. "We're making slow and steady progress," Martin insisted. "There are indications that we may be getting to the end of very high interest rates." Maybe so, but last week interest rates on short-term Government notes jumped to still another record high. Example: 6½% on a $356 million issue of New York State tax-free notes...
...Kosygin was also on his way home from a visit to Hanoi. On that occasion, Kosygin made it farther than the airport-he was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Almost certainly, they then agreed on the need to increase aid to North Viet Nam, but no progress was evident on the settling of their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders. As Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao later told the story, the Chinese replied...