Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. This stabbing satire of a play-girl's progress from obscurity to celebrity owes much to Julie Christie's stunning presence in the leading role...
...truly new Europe seemed to take shape in the remarkable progress of the Common Market ever since France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries signed the Treaty of Rome nearly nine years ago. As the tariff walls within the Six came tumbling down, trade doubled in a cornucopian flow of cars and caramels, typewriters and transistors, that made shops in the six countries part of one great international bazaar. The resulting boom fattened their gross national products by 38% since 1958 (v. 28% for the U.S.). Despite the erection of a common tariff against the outside world...
...these days of prosperity and progress, U.S. cities are collecting more garbage than they can dispose of. At the same time, the booming construction business is digging gravel and clay quarries that no one knows how to hide...
...provide for bishops' transfer, and in the meantime their ruling body, the Assembly of Bishops, has been refusing to fill rich posts that fall vacant, hoping that if the law were changed they could get themselves transferred to these plums. In October they seemed to be making progress; Premier Stephanos Stephanopoulos' Cabinet authorized transfers in two of the 17 vacant dioceses...
Died. Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah, 70, progress-minded ruler of oil-rich Kuwait; of congestive heart failure; in Kuwait (see THE WORLD...