Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outdoor press conference, Viet Nam was the major topic, and the recent progress of the war clearly had helped the President's mood. Still, as the nation's most avid psephologist,* Johnson took every opportunity to discount his recent drop in the polls. Without even looking down at his notes, he rattled off nearly a dozen favorable tallies and, with a brief flash of his White House petulance, threw a barb at reporters: "We have had a dozen polls, I guess, in the last week. You don't read about the favorable ones, though, I observe." Quoting...
Modern technology treats harshly those who do not anticipate its rapid progress, and this is nowhere truer than for the military. The U.S. is not only working on next year's weapons, but also on those for many years and even decades ahead. This year the U.S. will raise its research budget to a record $6.3 billion out of a total defense budget of $60 billion. More than 2,000 new weapons are on drawing boards or taking shape both in the military's 83 labs and arsenals and in the countless defense projects of private industry. Among...
...Boston, Tufts, and Harvard Law School, was one of President Kennedy's young brain-stormers. Not yet 30, reputed to be as eloquent as the peerless Ted Sorensen but faster with his ghostwriting pen, he turned out the basic draft of J.F.K.'s famed Alliance for Progress speech. Later, L.B.J. tapped him for help in composing the even more famed Great Society address...
With 11,000 signatures already in the bag, and five days remaining before the deadline, Adams seems assured of a place on the ballot. Probably the major factor affecting how well he does in the primary will be the progress of the war during the next two months. Right now, according to the latest (July 11) Louis Harris poll, the Administration is riding high. But public support for the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings rests on a hope that they will bring peace. Assuming this not to be the case, the current enthusiasm is likely to dampen somewhat by the middle...
...significant power struggle is probably already in progress over the succession to the Chinese leadership," Lucian W. Pye, professor of Political Science at M.I.T. told a meeting of Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy last night...