Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that he had sent to Congress "a broad program to help solve the problems," the President put the legislators on the spot by presenting an extraordinary litany of requests. "Give us action, give us progress, give us movement, and American cities will be great again. Give us funds for the Teacher Corps. Give us more resources for rent supplements. Give us the civil rights bill. Give us the means to prosecute the war against poverty. Give us the child-nutrition act. Give us the hospital bill. Give us the money for urban mass transit." And so on, through...
...metallurgy, chemicals and petrochemicals, fertilizers, food, electronics, timber, cellulose and manufactured metal products) and four other areas for nonindustrial development (roads, communications, electric power and banking). As a hint of what will come at the bigger hemisphere-wide meeting, the five also requested more say in the Alliance for Progress, which marked its fifth anniversary last week. The fruits of the Bogotá meeting may not show up for months, until committees work out the details and actual coordination of the broader programs. Until then, the five could draw satisfaction from the mere fact of having gotten together over...
...After a three-year stint in the Army, however, Lateiner's headlong progress hit a not-so-grand pause. Columbia Records ignored him, and indeed, Lateiner, who was shy and knew nothing of the ways of self-promotion, never even tried to get his recording contract renewed. For several years he seemed merely to hover on the fringes of the select circle of U.S. pianists; he never quite won the measure of popular acclaim that went to others of his generation, such as Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Last month, when he called his manager's Los Angeles...
...days. If the board was unsuccessful in settling the dispute, the President could still keep the union on the job for 90 more days while other steps were tried. With the union members thus ordered to stay at work for 180 days in all, the President, if no progress had been made after 150 days, would be requested to send Congress his own recommendations for a settlement...
...member of the executive committee on the Anti-HUAC Committee, said that although no definite plans had been made yet, "some of our members will probably go to Washington next Monday." The job of alerting a number of lawyers and clergymen who have protested HUAC activities is now in progress, Mumma said. There is every hope that they will respond, he added...