Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reports that there were some white people among the looters, arsonists and snipers in Detroit's riot comes as a terrible shock to me. It is most disheartening, since white people generally have made fine progress in years past. This may spoil everything. I would urge those who feel confirmed in their prejudices and who are quick with their denunciations to remember that not all white people condoned the lawlessness...
...many of the inequitable tax laws have been distorted for years without Congressional action is not an encouraging sign for reform now. It demonstrates the extent to which vested interests and traditional forces exert control over the nation's lawmakers. In some minor area, however, reforms are making progress. The President's proposal to change the method of taxing the elderly has been submitted as part of the Social Security amendments. It does not alter the revenue cost of the program, but merely redirects the relief in a uniform manner towards those who need it most--the poorest...
Confidence & Cooperation. Credit for Europoort's amazing progress rests squarely with Rotterdam's politicians and businessmen. Rather than wait for a blessing by the national government at The Hague, they have gone ahead with plans in a fait accompli fashion. Last year, for example, the Rotterdammers decided to deepen the port's sea channel to accommodate tankers up to 225,000 tons (present capacity is 130,000). The first of these giants is expected at the end of this year, and the entire project should be completed by late 1969. Typically, by the time The Hague gave...
...Secretary of Italy's Center for International Affairs, Gerardo Mombelli, said that socialism now has more problems than solutions. But, he added, the initiative is now with the socialists, and if the initiative remains with them, and progress toward European unification continues, then Americans will realize there is something more in Europe than the Pope and De Gaulle...
...Officials in Washington have been told of how the Communists train Americans to engage police officers so as to attack and burn in other areas." But an even more striking switch than this paranoid drivel was his about-face on welfare: "If we are to have real peace and progress and help those who really deserve help, then we must cut back on our socialistic welfare programs that are making bums out of many Americans who could otherwise be successful contributing members of our society." Most recently, Maddox has begun a puritanical purge by raiding Atlanta nightspots that sell drink...