Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson was aware that they would pack plenty of political megatonnage. Richard Nixon called on the Administration to "go ahead at all costs" with an anti-missile system. This pressure-plus the gnawing fear that the U.S. might be underestimating Chinese and Soviet missile progress-prompted the President to flash the green light...
...this was a fine beginning. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, an invited guest, exhorted the members to greater things but politely reminded them that beginnings too often remain just that in Africa. After four years of existence, said Thant, "your organization has not made the hoped-for progress toward achievement of its goals...
Pitched battles were in progress between the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) for control of two of the federation's 17 states. The N.L.F. already holds twelve, FLOSY two. Only the emirate of Beihan is still unbothered by the rebels. In Aden, the federation's dominant state, not even the presence of 10,000 British troops could prevent street fighting between the two groups...
Died. Richard H. Amberg, 55, publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a Harvard-educated businessman-journalist who went to the Globe when Sam Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955, rejuvenated the paper's editorials, concentrated on local coverage, civic progress and a personal membership in virtually every organization in town, all of which lifted circulation (now 315,000 daily) to within hailing distance of the international-minded Post-Dispatch; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...most dramatic plans, however, are those in progress at Los Angeles...