Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sachar believes that taking power away from the president is "the best way totally to paralyze a university," and he may be right. But this one-man rule at Brandeis has become in recent years the largest obstacle to that university's progress...
...make the Alliance for Progress more than a one-way street for American aid, its 20 members appointed a panel of nine Latin American economists to study the best manner of achieving mutual interdependent development. Trouble was that the "nine wise men" lacked any real power; so a more influential Inter-American Committee (CIAP) was created. Last March in Buenos Aires, the Alliance voted to trim the nine wise men to five, and put them under CIAP as a technical committee. Last week the whole nine-man panel resigned, firing broadsides at the Alliance as they went...
...Naval Hospital in Oakland, Dr. Frank L. Golbranson has already used instant prostheses to send some Viet Nam battle victims back to active, though limited, duty. Such progress is sure to bring long overdue improvement in treating most of the nation's estimated 30,000 leg amputations a year. With strong Government backing, the new technique probably can be perfected, and enough specialists trained in its use, to make it widely available in less than two years...
From Montreal to Cairo. Despite the stop sign in the West, the go-ahead in the East signals significant progress for the U.S.'s railroads. The Penn Central link-up will be the largest corporate merger ever in U.S. business, forming the nation's biggest new company since U.S. Steel in 1901. Going into business on June 1 will be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul...
...sexual superiority: "Most American white men are trained to be fags." Insult, in fact, is his single weapon: "The American policeman is the foulest social category in the world today." "The white man, at this point in history, is the major obstruction on the path of man's progress." His solutions are disarmingly simplistic: "When those four children were killed in the Birmingham bombing [of Sept. 15, 1963], the U.S. Steel plant in that city should have been shut down by Negroes. A general strike should have been called. That city should have died, should have been killed...