Word: progress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion. Nixon reiterates that there can be no order without justice, that progress and peace go hand in hand. He goes on from there to attack the Democratic Administration for "grossly exaggerating" the relationship between poverty and crime. Nixon insists that doubling the conviction rate would accomplish more than quadrupling the antipoverty effort. Despite pressure from Republican liberals like Senator Edward Brooke, he is far less specific about social justice than he is about law and order...
...professionals and skilled technicians at loose ends provided a field day. Australian recruiters happily chartered three jetliners to bring hundreds of refugees to Sydney, including doctors, engineers, dentists, university professors, graphic designers and High Diving Champion Stefan Hanny. "These people could make an immeasurable contribution to Australia's progress if they can be allowed to practice their professions," said Immigration Minister Billy Snedden. Canada frantically increased its three-man immigration department in Vienna to 20, has already granted resident visas to almost 2,000 persons-including Marcella Grossova, 24, runner-up in Czechoslovakia's annual national beauty contest...
...very practical proposition." U.S. Representative George Ball concurred. In what turned out to be one of his last state ments before resigning (see THE NATION), Ball judged the Secretary General's comments "in no way helpful in furthering the serious and sensitive negotiations now in progress...
...list of drugs that have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective in most cases than earlier medicines and promises real progress in future Parkinsonism treatment, once it is thoroughly tested. Unfortunately, it has already touched off a flurry of premature hope among U.S. Parkinsonism victims, variously estimated at between...
Frog to a Phoenix. Visitors are caught up in a carnivalesque March of Progress from the moment they enter. At the door, they find that their bodies have been sighted by an electric eye, which in turn triggers the computer-generated voice that welcomes them in a deep monotone. They may be approached by R.O.S.A. (Radio Operated Simulated Actress) Bosom, a roving electronic robot who actually appeared with live performers in a 1966 London production of The Three Musketeers (R.O.S.A. played the Queen of France...