Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India's Jawaharlal Nehru and his doctrine of active neutrality, the week started off brightly indeed. Fresh from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting in London, Nehru moved triumphantly across Europe in what at times resembled a royal progress, wearing his familiar brown tunic, white churidar trousers and the inevitable red rose. Consulted at every turn with much the mixture of deference and bewilderment once accorded the Delphic oracle, the Indian Prime Minister reacted with a purr of self-satisfaction so audible that in Hamburg (where he accepted two honorary degrees) he felt obliged to explain. "When people...
...leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, India is striving to build a planned industrial economy that will be made safe for democracy. In the abstract, Nehru's humane alternative is clearly preferable to Asians, but today's Asia is impatient and pragmatic. If India fails to make rapid economic progress or even if her rate of economic growth lags too far behind that of Red China, most of Asia, including India itself, may succumb in time to the clanking siren song of Communism...
...independence, become the first black nation in the Commonwealth. Nkrumah, onetime dabbler in Marxism, now talks of "self-government in an atmosphere of peace, order and respect for the law." And for all the burblings of Blimps about the blacks, British colonialism has a stake in Gold Coast progress. "That's for you chaps to decide," the colony's able Governor Sir Charles Arden-Clarke tells British Africa's first all-black Cabinet. "After all, you're the government...
...International Seminar Forum taking place at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D will discuss "Italy a Fortnight Ago" and "Progress in Pakistan." The participants will include editors, publishers, and a sculptress from the two nations...
...crowd stayed to the very end. Said one approving spectator : "Those are free men parading-and they mean to stay that way." When President Aramburu stepped down from the stand and got into his car, a cheering crowd broke through police lines and surrounded him, enthusiastically slowing his progress for several blocks...