Word: progressing
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine and mangled by his all-too-painful awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Nicol Williamson nets all the screeching humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's whirlpool of words...
Tighter Space. "We are a rich nation," Johnson emphasized, "and can afford to make progress at home while meeting obligations abroad." Nonetheless, he conceded, "the rate of advance in the new programs has been held below what might have been." While non-military spending will total $52.3 billion, an increase of $2.5 billion, the war on poverty was allotted only $1.6 billion instead of the hoped-for $2.5 billion. Federal spending outside the war, Great Society programs, and interest on the national debt will be trimmed by $2.3 billion. One notable victim is the space program, which will receive...
...days of talks, Shiina and his hosts made little progress on their custody dispute over the Kuril Islands of Etorofu and Kunashiri north of the Japanese mainland, which were occupied by the Soviet after World War II. But that did not stand in the way of other business, including the signing of a fiveyear, $2 billion trade pact, agreement on the first direct commercial air service between Moscow and Tokyo, and discussion of a possible Moscow trip for Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato next spring. All of which, Peking complained, "grew out of the new Soviet leadership's line...
There has been considerable progress in freeing the arts. Since 1958, when Antoni Tàpies brought glory to Spain by winning the Venice Biennale, the regime has been furiously promoting young Spanish painters and writers...
Points of Progress. European countries have been dragging their feet about monetary reform, partly because they contend that the U.S. and Britain must first bring their balance of payments in order. Last week brought word of progress from both nations. President John son reported that the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit fell from $2.8 billion in 1964 to no more than $1.3 billion last year. Britain revealed that belt tightening had cut its trade deficit almost in half, to $772 million last year...