Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years in power, the military junta of 38-year-old Lieut. Colonel Nasser could boast of considerable progress. It had overthrown a corrupt monarch, broken a sordid feudal aristocracy's long-held power over Egypt's politics, disowned the murderous fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and driven British troops from Egyptian soil after 74 years of occupation. It had imposed some stability. It had done less well in grappling with the ancient miseries of one of the world's poorest countries. By making his deal for Communist arms, Nasser had ended Egypt's dependence...
...greatest progress has come in a land not otherwise noted for its leadership in the world of art: the U.S. From Beacon Hill to Nob Hill, modern architecture has squalled and tottered through its awkward, unruly, early years, but it has begun-if only begun-to mature. In Paris, architectural students eagerly follow the new work of younger U.S. architects with all the fervor that Left Bank jazz addicts reserve for Dizzy Gillespie and Satchmo Armstrong. Said a young French architect: "When we have a chance to see what your architects are doing, we have a picture of what...
Earth & Sky. As usual, Eero Saarinen has much to keep him busy far into the night. With 39 major structures already built, he has $35 million worth of works in progress, involving 50 buildings, 21 campus residences and one $300,000 house. As usual he is never completely satisfied with his own projects nor with the general state of his profession...
...gestures: the union dispatched strike rules to the locals ("There must not be any drinking on the picket lines; no elaborate meals shall be served"), and the steel companies announced that they would begin tapering off production and banking their furnaces by midweek if there was no sign of progress...
Security & Scope. "We have come a long way," said the Very Rev. Dr. Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, in his tercentenary address. Some samples of the progress: today there are approximately 450,000 Jews in the British Isles (about .88% of the total population) who worship in 450 established synagogues; 13 Jewish peers sit in the House of Lords and 19 Jews in the House of Commons; two hold high government jobs-the Marquess of Reading is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Baron Mancroft is Under Secretary of State...