Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Larry O'Brien, who made his name as an astute political strategist and for the past 17 months has been one of the most progress-minded Postmasters General in history, last week put progress above politics by urging that his department be reorganized from top to mail drop. In the process, he proposed the abolition...
...site of the three-day meeting is mildly symbolic: it is the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the treaty for the Alliance for Progress was signed by the countries' economic ministers in 1961. Despite impressive economic growth in several countries, notably Venezuela and the Central American republics, the Alliance has fallen short of its goal of freeing Latin America from the gross disparities between rich and poor, from the rigid tariff barriers that inhibit trade, and from the debilitating dependence on only one or two crops...
...AFTRA renegade was still Chet Huntley, who was busy between newscasts trying to round up a cadre of journalists in an effort to start up a separate union. He didn't make any progress last week. In fact, 48 newsmen sent him an open protest letter headlined: "Where Were You, Mr. Huntley?" Predictably, annoyance at times gave way to acrimony. Jim Hoffman, an NBC time salesman who took over the llth Hour News on WNBC-TV walked into Hurley's, the broadcasters' favorite Sixth Avenue bar-and into an earful from striking Newswoman Liz Trotta...
Those attitudes which have the most relevance for student political activity reflect quite strongly the failure of the communist regimes to make much progress in building the "new socialist man." Strongest evidence for this comes from surveys made in 1958 and 1961 on the world outlook of Warsaw students. These surveys indicated changes over this period in attitudes towards religion, socialism, and ideological, social, or political involvement...
That expression of student attitudes which most reflects the failure of the communist regimes to show any real progress in building the "new socalist man" is the student aversion to becoming "involved"--ideologically, politically, or socially. This came out quite clearly in the Polish surveys in 1958 and 1961. The reported frequency of political discussions among students, for example, decreased markedly between 1958 and 1961. At the same time there was a rise from 30 to 40 percent of the sample who, in assessing students' attitudes toward socialism, considered "those who do not care about it" as constituting the prevalent...