Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mule team harnessed at night by a blind, one-armed idiot." There was the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, the Fair Deal of Harry Truman, and now the "ordeal" of Lyndon Johnson. He also produced a passable caption for a future Romney administration. "A new generation of progress," he said, "is forming up on the horizon." As usual, Romney laced his talk with moral homilies, and even his discussion of public responsibility carried a churchly ring. He told an Elks Club meeting in Idaho Falls that "the people of this country would respond in overwhelming numbers if their leaders asked...
Protest & Progress. "We are not interested in giving people diplomas," says Sullivan. "We are interested in getting them jobs." That aim has been realized: in three years, O.I.C. has found work for 3,000 people, 90% of its graduates. Sullivan points out that since 97% of his students are classified as poor, O.I.C. has added $9,000,000 to Philadelphia's consumer purchasing, saved the state $2,000,000 in welfare costs. With six centers around the city...
...past," says Marseille's popular Socialist mayor, Gaston Defferre, "people voted for De Gaulle because he represented security. This is no longer true. Gaullism has failed the country socially, financially and economically." Asks Liberal Catholic Leader Lecanuet, a resolute pro-American: "Why doesn't France progress? We cannot have a force de frappe, a policy of prestige and national ambition, and at the same time build 600,000 housing units each year...
...coal for their power needs, many of the have-not powers see in nuclear energy their first opportunity to tap a power source that will allow them to develop real industrial muscle. What most worries the have-nots is that the treaty's stipulations might impede their atomic progress; what most worries the U.S. and Russia is that each advance brings the have-nots closer to an atomic-weaponry potential. West Germany has a new "fast-breeder" reactor that generates electricity-and produces enough plutonium to build 36 A-bombs of Hiroshima firepower per year. According to some estimates...
...American speech since 1964-when he told Washington to "go drink the Red Sea" -Nasser accused the U.S. (to which he owes $169.2 million), and the CIA in particular, of "supporting those Arab prostitutes," King Hussein of Jordan and King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, "in a conspiracy against Arab progress." Speaking for two hours at Cairo University, he also excoriated the U.S. for selling arms to Israel and accused Washington of "waging a war of starvation against the Egyptian people" by withholding shipments of surplus American wheat. What is more, he hinted broadly that Egypt henceforth might refuse...