Word: progressing
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Launched two years ago in the Roman Catholic archdioceses of Detroit and St. Louis, Project Equality last week issued its first progress report-and progress it had to report. The campaign has now spread to ten states, includes more than 7,500 Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish congregations with a combined purchasing power of nearly $2 billion a year. To date, more than 15,000 firms, ranging from two-man shops to corporations employing more than 100,000 people, have pledged their cooperation. By the end of next year, predicts Project Equality's national director, Catholic Layman Thomas Gibbons...
...Whether a pilot takes the northern route or one of the less volatile southern routes (New York-Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue missions were costing Canada too much time and money. Now that...
...most popular features of Expo is Czechoslovakia's Kino-Automat, which is as much an audience-participation show as is a happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...
...councillors in the new coalition grew up in this kind of politics and still act as if things had not changed. Yet, in taking their radical departure, they have also introduced a new form of politics--more issue-oriented, with a commtiment to public programs and demonstrable "progress...
...else it takes effect without amendment. To avoid such a possibility, the traditional anti-home rule factions--Southern segregationists who fear handing their own authority on D.C. matters to the local Negro majority, and local real estate and business interests who benefit from the low taxes--have stymied progress by introducing the President's plan in the form of a regular bill so that it could come under the District Committee and be amended and, in essence, defeated...