Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...echoes were rancorously reminiscent of 1948, when another Democratic President began to fight back. Last week, abandoning his customary quest for consensus, Lyndon Johnson lashed out at his critics. "The struggle for progress and reform in America has never been easy," he told labor leaders in Manhattan. "On the one hand is the old coalition of standpatters and naysayers. They never wanted to do any thing, but this year they say they can't do it because of Viet Nam. Well, that's pure bunk. And far off at the other end of the spectrum, there are those...
Lessons from Tito. Touring a Soviet factory, President Josip Broz Tito shocked the Russians accompanying him by extolling progress in Yugoslavia instead of Russia and boasting about "a new phase" of socialism in his country. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu stayed around in Moscow just long enough to make the point to all who would listen that "Rumanians are masters in their own house"-meaning that they like their new independence from Moscow. Fidel Castro had snubbed the Kremlin by sending Public Health Minister Dr. José Ramón Machado in his place; when the peeved Russians would...
...trip to Washington to report to President Johnson on the war's progress, General William C. Westmoreland said last week that he "is more encouraged than at any time since I arrived here" nearly four years ago. Communist recruiting in the South is down from some 7,000 new soldiers a month in 1966 to around 3,500 today-and still declining. As a result, Hanoi is being forced to send more North Vietnamese to fill out the ranks of Southern-based units; it now has more than 100,000 men fighting in South Viet Nam, constituting...
...heavy. Novelist McCarthy confesses at the outset that her visit to the war last February for the New York Review of Books was to seek what was damaging to America. Written in corrosive prose, her book is a searing catalogue of squalor: rusting heaps of empty cans marking the progress of American divisions across the countryside, unwashed refugees and naive do-gooding Americans burbling enthusiastically of winning Vietnamese hearts and minds as they deepen the people's agony. Apparently, she looked for nothing else...
According to the Republican, New York Jets' coach Weeb Ewbank is impressed with John's progress on the Orbits. He may bring Dockery up soon even if the Jet's defensive backfield remains sound...