Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year is he who most influenced the course of history and changed the destiny of the world's nations, then I nominate Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan. He has proved that a small nation can live and progress without depending upon big powers and can defeat an enemy five times stronger than itself...
...area of life, progress is likely to depend upon the initiative of an adventurous few. Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and the Bishops of Oklahoma City-Tulsa and Wheeling have already announced plans to hold "Little Councils" in their own dioceses, in which laymen as well as priests and nuns will take part. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing plans to establish lay councils in every parish...
...University of North Carolina's graduate school. Taking over two years ago, he ordered a self-study in which 285 faculty and staff members produced a massive critical report. Heard read all 36 Ibs. of it, now uses it as a basis for measuring Vanderbilt's progress. He created a separate department of molecular biology and a division of bio-medical sciences, established a "distinguished professor" rank with high salaries to attract top talent, and overhauled the sociology department...
...collection of scientific brainpower assembled for the space program should be kept together. "There's never been anything quite like the program we've assembled," said a NASA official. "Our progress has astonished us. Given a problem in space flight, this group of people can come up with the knowledge to solve it. Should we now break them...
...remains a model of gauntness. "I only gain weight when I am terribly depressed," she maintains. Apparently, there is nothing depressing Capucine at present, except the gnawing feeling that the pussycat may be keeping so cool that as a comedienne she is growing cold. As she views the progress of the sex kittens in Hollywood, she sometimes broods about her icicle style. "I don't know," she says. "Sometimes I feel that I would like to cut loose and start throwing pies...