Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tucking napkin under chin and sharing Edward Brooke's night-be-fore-election "soul food" dinner of pigs' feet and Moet et Chandon champagne. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, who lives a scant two miles from Ronald Reagan and had followed the candidate's progress for 18 months, did not remember any champagne. "It added up to uncounted cold cups of coffee at airports, box lunches on buses, and in wine country, great clumps of unwashed grapes," Berges recalled. "Once when the rest of the family was away, we had lunch together at his house...
...housing laws, but he owed his election primarily to his "time-for-a-change" theme, his charismatic personality and skillful oratory. Though he advocated open-housing legislation, Chuck Percy profited both from white indignation over last summer's Negro demonstrations in Chicago and from Negro resentment over their sluggish progress under a Democratic city machine. But his real margin of victory was the contrast between his youthful activism and Paul Douglas' image of a well-meaning man who should have retired...
Cramer is currently working on a machine which would make it possible for a blind student to regulate the speed of the tape he is listening to. A brighter student could progress according to his own ability, unhindered by the rest of the class...
Until that time, however certain one is that a vast crime is in progress, the duties of etiquette bind one to silence or at most quiet, unobtrusive suggestions that perhaps one's chosen leaders ought to alter their course a tiny bit. Therefore I regret the discourteousy of a demonstration I took part in and apolozige to Secretary McNamara. MERRILL KAITZ...
...country, McNamara kicked aside the ponderous language of interdepartmental memoranda, smiled gratefully behind his rimless glasses, and unloaded the theme of his trip: the people of this country, he said, are failing to deal effectively with the immense problems -- in education, health, the cities -- that threaten to choke off progress...