Word: progressing
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Heartening as the military news has been, it is the progress of the other war in Viet Nam-the peaceful construction program-that appeals most deeply to the President. The Administration's efforts to help the Vietnamese people provide him, in addition, with an irrefutable answer to many of his critics. One leader of the anti-war movement, Saturday Review Editor Norman Cousins, wrote compassionately last week of the Vietnamese, "whose constant and unwanted companion has been violence and terror and whose only crime has been their geography." They have, he said, a kind of "moral claim on history...
...Society." Nonetheless, it is the "other war," as he calls it-the struggle for social and economic progress in South Viet Nam-that has most deeply stirred the Vice President's imagination and energies. Kneading the air with freckled hands, arching his circumflex eyebrows and managing to speak about twice as fast as any Teletype can relay his words, he declares: "There is a new spirit there, because we have not only said that we wish to defeat aggression, but we wish to defeat social misery, and here is where we all come in. We are seeking to help...
Another of the new ventures is the processing of experimental data while the experiment is still in progress. This is being tried on a high energy physics experiment at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Each of four CEA scientists has a small computer in his laboratory a little way up Oxford St., and these are tied in with the IBM 360/50 at the Center. The small machines gather data from the experiment, and pass it on to the larger computer where it is processed. The results are instantaneously fed back to the small machines to be displayed to the scientists...
BRITAIN, which has absorbed $4.2 billion in American investment, more than any other country in Europe, has an "excellent" climate for foreign investment, especially American. The British particularly want investment that will bring in new technology and foster progress in Scotland and Northern Ireland. American corporations have an "exemplary" record of good behavior in the U.K., but their executives tend to irritate the British by not adapting to local customs. There is some fear of "U.S. dominance" of key industries such as autos, aircraft, computers...
...articles then focus on problem situations within Africa. Hugh Polk '66 and Clive Kileff '66 discuss the attitudes of White Rhodesians toward both their country and majority rule. Fred Akuffo '66 attempts to analyze Ghana's progress under Nkrumah, and to outline the plans of the new government. A "miscellaneous" article by Stephen Cobb calls for a re-definition of the role of the American government in issuing passports, a controversy arising from the travels of Staughton Lynd. The three book reviews are intriguing, but not directly related to the African theme of the Review...