Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. A playgirl's progress from obscurity to celebrity is charted by Director John Schlesinger (Billy Liar), whose brittle, jet-set satire owes much to Julie Christie's presence in the title role...
...York County, where more than 600 Negroes were registered by local officials in two days, was a notable example. But in most of the counties in the areas covered by the act−Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, and 26 counties in North Carolina−progress was at best glacial. Even so, Katzenbach remained reluctant to order massive federal intervention in the hope that Southern officials would begin to see the light...
Whether he likes to be reminded of it or not, the Negro has made spectacular progress in the past decade; if he angrily refuses to look back over his shoulder to see how far he has come, he has nevertheless advanced along the road to full equality in U.S. society. Millions have achieved what Martin Luther King calls a "sense of somebodiness"−a new self-respect and selfesteem. To say, "I haven't got a chance" is to inflict a great self-injustice. There are at least 35 Negro millionaires in the U.S. Every sizable city...
...more backyards for Manry. The Plain Dealer, which was scooped two weeks ago by the rival Cleveland Press about Manry's progress (TIME, Aug. 20), sent a bevy of reporters to serve as his escort. Autograph seekers stopped him on the street. Offers for books and magazine pieces have begun pouring in. Cleveland plans a hero's welcome when he returns home next week, and Ohio's Republican Congressman William Minshall has proposed that Tinkerbelle be placed in the Smithsonian Institution alongside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis...
...cars brought by trailer), all of the A's were driven from their home towns, and one had made it from San Diego averaging 16 miles per gallon and hitting 55 miles an hour without any trouble. From the Wastebasket. In this day of rampant obsolescence and inexorable progress, many of the things that people love most dearly are those that they have rescued-either through stubbornness or nostalgia-from history's wastebasket. The Model A is one of them. Of the 4,849,340 A's produced between 1927 and 1932, some 300,000 are still...