Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crises are evident in the paucity of results. In Watts, the high-tension Negro section of Los Angeles that erupted in fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal...
...redistribution of powers-with more responsibilities assigned to state and local governments and to private enterprise as well. President Johnson likes to apply the phrase "creative federalism" to this partnership-meaning that Washington will furnish the muscle and the money for the nation's vast social progress while local officials expend their energy and ingenuity on making the programs work. So far, the Administration's most imaginative plan based totally on the concept of creative federalism is the $1 billion-plus Demonstration Cities program. It calls for the award of funds to municipalities that produce the most compelling...
...done. But, fundamentally, this is a job of massive financial and human investment that can best be accomplished by the private sector." Added Rockefeller caustically: "Many of my businessmen friends tell me that many Government officials tend to look upon them as rivals in competition rather than partners in progress...
...only very few have taken the big plunge toward union." One reason for this has been the realization that "there can be no unity until there has been sweeping church renewal"-and traditional structures are "so tough and unbending that renewal often gets stuck halfway." Still another roadblock to progress is that "the ecumenical message has not yet penetrated to grassroots level in the parishes. We have too many officers and not enough soldiers...
Impatient at the slow pace of progress in unity, plenty of young Protestant thinkers, including some on the World Council's staff in Geneva, have wondered whether ecumenism is possible within the framework of existing churches. Visser 't Hooft understands the impatience, but remains convinced that to abandon the church as institution is to abandon the hope of unity for good. "An ecumenical movement not rooted in the churches would just lead to yet another confession and a new division," he insists. "We must forget about the notion that others will do the job of unity...