Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with us. But I don't think it is any secret that at times we lose patience with your advisers." It is a frankness the U.S. appreciates and needs in Viet Nam politics-not least because it is a guarantee of honesty. Nonetheless, said Ky, "we are making progress," and proceeded to tick it off in terms of classrooms built, land reform, medical centers, housing starts. "When you speak of building hospitals and schools and rural electrification programs," responded John son, "you are speaking our language...
...Common Market was another subject to avoid. The French had agreed at Luxembourg last month to return to their vacant seat at Common Market headquarters largely because of some unexpectedly effective prodding from West Germany. Erhard thought that it might be a good time to try for some progress toward political union of the Six. Some observers were even speculating that France might be willing to let Britain reapply for Market membership. But le grand Charles does not yet need English allies. He smoothly informed Erhard that the Common Market's first order of business was to "implement...
...Many of these men are committed to the defensible proposition that their duty lies almost solely with administering their own schools. But about a third of them assume more off-campus commitments, believe more deeply that universities must contribute in concert, as well as individually, to U.S. goals and progress. They tend, by their energy and conviction, to nominate themselves-which often means coming to the attention of such committee pickers as HEW Secretary John Gardner or his chief education assistant, Francis Keppel. The current inner group is pictured and described on these pages...
...than any single male president-ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the National Science Foundation. She has served as president of the American Council on Education and the College Entrance Examination Board. A psychologist, she has led Bryn Mawr for 23 years. "This college is interested in progress for U.S. education and in working for it," she says. "Not just progress, but fast progress...
Losing the Largesse. Such has been the progress of the Shah's program that the U.S. Government slashed aid to Iran from $22 million to $2,900,000 last year. And, last December, President Johnson's Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments-which sets guidelines for the "voluntary" program limiting direct U.S. investment abroad -declared that Iran was now a "developed nation." Far from feeling complimented, the Shah and Amir Abass Hoveida, his Prime Minister and chief economic planner, took the declaration as an affront; it made Iran for the first time subject to the guidelines...