Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. Julie Christie's polished portrayal of the progress of a jet-set jade from obscurity to celebrity is irresistible in Director John Schlesinger's (Billy Liar) brittle satire...
...INDONESIA. The marvel is that any progress at all could have been so skillfully avoided. The $831 million in economic aid and $77.8 million in military assistance that were poured into this naturally rich country collided with the simple fact that Sukarno has no interest in economic development; he seeks empire. The U.S. program crashed when he shouted, "To hell with your aid." One salvageable irony is that the U.S. effort inspired the U.S.S.R. to give Indonesia more than $1 billion, and now Sukarno is bitter against Russians...
Jetting through five Latin nations, Vaughn showed himself to be an articulate Administration spokesman, with a special competence for the farming affairs that are a major concern of the Alliance for Progress. "I'm the son of a cowboy," explains Vaughn, who was born and raised in Columbus, Mont. He had been known in Panama as "the peasant ambassador"; after he put in an exhausting week in farmers' fields all the way from Mexico to Chile, the label seemed more appropriate than ever. Inevitably, there were formal encounters with Presidents and Cabinet ministers, but the restless, inquisitive Vaughn...
...these organizations feel that the current climate of opinion may make it harder for them to win future legal battles. Says Howard Squadron, chairman of the A.J.C.'s Commission on Law and Social Action: "It's difficult to find oneself in opposition to the spirit of progress...
That Bogy. Some churchmen also wonder whether the churches' willingness to accept Government aid is progress at all. Particularly concerned are Baptists and conservative Lutherans, whose spiritual tradition strongly emphasizes absolute separation of religion and government. Although some Baptist colleges plan to apply for federal funds under the Higher Education Facilities Act, Baptists in Massachusetts have rejected public loans for hospital expansion under the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act or for low-income housing under the National Housing Act. This summer, despite their sympathy for the aims of Project Head Start, they reluctantly decided not to participate directly, instead...