Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of the Empire State can be justifiably proud of the progress to date and with their continued support, State University (as we in the family prefer to call it), is destined to become the leader of public higher education in the nation...
Whether any give will develop in either the U.S. or the North Vietnamese positions remains to be seen. Private diplomatic exploration of exactly what is on Hanoi's mind is continuing, and may go on for some time before it is clear whether any progress is being made. So far, ranking U.S. officials reported last week that these private contacts were yielding essentially the same results as the dialogue by headline...
...European repertory, with performances in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden, and one now in preparation in Czechoslovakia. With three operas (including an early one-acter), four string quartets, two symphonies, and a sheaf of smaller pieces to his credit-and a piano concerto and another opera in progress-Bennett has already reached a point envied by most composers and attained by a few: he can live quite comfortably off his royalties...
...Adzope, or the hundred towns like it, is going to be far more crucial to the development of the Ivory Coast than the capital or the villages. The capital, Abidjan, everyone there says, is beautiful, but no more African than Marseille. The glamor of the villages quickly becomes boring--progress avoids them. The success or failure of the country will be decided outside both areas: outside Abidjan because it is such an anomoly, outside the villages because nothing ever happens there...
...give a physical focus for student activity, the government is constructing a youth center in the middle of town, and for the past few summers has been inviting French and American student groups like Operation Crossroads to work with local students on the building. Progress is excruciatingly slow, but when it is done it will include a large meeting room, a library, a youth hostel, and a bar. Meanwhile, students converse over their shovels...