Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scattered Chicks. In the two months since Suez, the drive toward a united Europe has made more progress than in the previous two years. By happy political chance, France's Premier Guy Mollet and Germany's Konrad Adenauer are both dedicated "Europeans" who recently together settled the long-festering problem of the Saar. After months in the hands of the experts, two important new treaties are ready for submission to six Western European nations: one to eliminate internal customs barriers and provide a common market for 160 million people, the other to pool all atomic research and development...
Okinawa's new schools and hospitals, even for the bright new concrete buildings and paved streets of Naha itself. Two days after election, 27 of Naha's 30 city councilors announced that they would "refuse to cooperate with a Communist mayor pledged to destroy all the progress Naha has made with the aid and good will of the U.S." Simultaneously, all 22 of the city department heads resigned "in protest against serving under ex-Convict Senaga." Moriyasu Tomihara, president of the Bank of the Ryukyus (in which the U.S. holds 51% of the stock and supplies nearly...
...part of its usual year-end review this week, CBS presented an unusually fresh, informative survey of the progress of science in 1956. A mixture of filmed and live features. The New Frontier rounded up stories that TV covered inadequately or not at all while they were breaking, blended them into a fascinating hour of sights and sounds-mutterings picked up by radiotelescope from Mars and Jupiter, pictures of the origins of the universe reproduced in a test tube, the advance of headhunters of a South Pacific island from Stone Age barbarism to modern civilization in 25 years...
...Progress Report. In Taegu, South Korea, two weeks after he escaped from jail, Murder Suspect Kank Woo Won sent a polite note to the prosecutor: "I wasn't feeling too well because I feared I would be executed, but I am very well now, thank...
...West to organize and arm itself against the threat of Russia. Ever since then, he has been in the forefront of every effort toward European unity, impatient at "lip service" and "halfway measures toward that end as he has been active and ardent in support of practical progress." "To believe that we can still defend our selves, by ourselves," he told the Belgians last year, in support of NATO "is completely absurd." And he added: "For me, NATO must also be the political center of the West." Speaking in Moscow at the time of the Suez invasion and the Russian...