Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high rate of compliance should not hide the minimal progress that has been made. While the office of Education can claim some credit for speeding the integration process, the fact remains that only 6.01 per cent of Negroes in the 11 Southern states now attend schools with whites. (For the six borders states and the District of Columbia the figure is a heal their 68.9 per cent.) Commissioner of Education Harold Howe II has said that he hopes the new guidelines will raise the percent-age in the deep South this fall to 12 per cent. But an official...
...story can be done - on a "crash" basis - reported, written and edited in a matter of days - or it may require long gestation. This week's story, built around ten great U.S. teachers, is an example of the second category. "To Profess with a Passion" has been in progress for one year. Last May Associate Editor Ed Magnuson (Minnesota, '50, magna cum laude) and Senior Editor William Forbis (Montana, '39, cum laude) went their separate ways visiting campuses and sitting in on lectures across the U.S. to learn what was afoot in the college classroom...
...people polled said the ideal family should have four or more children. Today the figure is down to 35%, about where it was when the question was first asked 30 years ago. Just as important, notes Gallup, Americans no longer associate a growing population with progress; indeed, more than two-thirds look upon it as a "serious problem...
Republican Robert Smylie of Idaho urged greater "candor" in the Administration's discussions of its objectives. "There is a growing disillusion over our progress in Southeast Asia," he said. "There is beginning to develop a great crisis of confidence over our ability to achieve our objectives...
...charge, announced after a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, suggests that Lamont may have benefitted personally from an illegal purchase. The charge "came up as a matter of the routine progress of a law suit," according to the SEC's office of General Counsel in Washington. Lamont had been told several times that a personal stock purchase of his might be questioned, they said...