Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more stringent than the Judiciary Committee's bill-have experienced a noticeable change in housing patterns as a result. All the same, the Administration believes that even the watered-down bill would create an atmosphere unfavorable to discrimination. More important, the law would be a symbol of progress to ghetto Negroes. Already, warned Roy Wilkins, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "a large segment of Negro and white Americans is jeering at the legislative approach to civil rights. A failure by the House to take effective action for fair housing will increase skepticism among more sober citizens as well...
...Administration's request-lowest ($2.4 billion) submitted in any year since the foreign aid program was begun 18 years ago-was cut by $409 million; loan terms were tightened; and authorizations, except for the Alliance for Progress, were kept to one year. The House had given the Administration most of what it asked; the measure will now go to a Senate-House conference committee, which will probably split the differences and give the Administration a bill slightly more to its liking...
Holt, a personable but bland moderate backed by the Faubus organization, has run a lackluster campaign, lauding the state's progress under the Governor and invoking his own record as a former county prosecutor and state attorney general. Apart from a pledge of $500-a-year raises for teachers and a new traffic-safety program, he has offered little in the way of change...
...economic progress was India's sole concern, we would not bother with Democracy but would rather model our government after General Motors," he said. "But for us Democracy is where the government officials must face the people periodically," and prove to them that they deserve their trust...
...program began in 1955, when President Eisenhower directed the Navy to adapt the Army's liquid-fuel Jupiter missile for use on surface ships. This proved impractical, but the Navy within a year had made dramatic progress toward development of its own solid-fuel Polaris missile, and had also overcome many of the technical problems of designing a nuclear-powered submarine. The two programs logically became one. Working side by side, Admirals William F. Raborn (more recently head of the CIA) and Hyman Rickover headed a team that devised a complex navigational device that could plot...