Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING AND COUNTRY. A private's progress from firing line to firing squad is the substance of Director Joseph (The Servant) Losey's painful, stirringly played World War I drama about an inarticulate deserter (Tom Courtenay) and his anguished defender (Dirk Bogarde...
...moment at least, .Cuban Communism and subversion seem more or less neutralized. The guerrilla situation in the Hemisphere is troublesome but hardly desperate. Politically, Castro and Cuba have been discredited, both by what they have become and by the force of stronger ideas. The Alliance for Progress is slowly beginning to live up to its name. In half a dozen countries, impressive new leaders are pushing hard for a peaceful social and economic evolution; in most of the others, the realization is dawning on those in power-the military, the landowners, the Roman Catholic Church-that they will have...
...Gain. Fowler forecast last week that progress toward change will be achieved by next spring, and that the talks will be widened to include the smaller IMF members outside the Ten. That estimate is optimistic, but even France's Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing admitted: "The ice floe on reform has at last broken. People are now ready to talk business." Perhaps it was symbolic that, in their off-hours Fowler and Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin played a brisk match of tennis against Giscard and his deputy, André de Lattre. Score...
Farmer praises President Johnson's federal action on behalf of the Negro. He terms Johnson "the most forth-right President we've ever hand on civil rights, including Kennedy." But on the local level, especially in the North, Farmer finds progress in the rights fight disturbingly intangible: "In the South, you can taste the hamburger in a newly integrated restaurant or sign your name on a voter registration list." But the northern effort against de facto segregation, bad housing, job shortage and police brutality is slow and frustrating, particularly to the activists, many of whom have transferred their primary allegiance...
...national Kennedy Fellowship fund drive, however, is still in progress under the direction of the Lord Mayor of London. Money is being collected throughout Britain and, once established, the fund will continue to provide ten scholarships a year indefinitely...