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...
...doctor with vision in this country." The President even made a production of signing a minor bill giving postmasters a five-day week. Summoning 76 postmasters to the Rose Garden, L.B.J. allowed: "It is glorious that we can be here in this peaceful attitude and be making so much progress with, I think, the best Congress that was ever assembled." The Biggest. On signing the $7.5 billion housing bill, Johnson recalled, for an audience in the Rose Garden, that he grew up in a house without lights, water, or floor covering. "This legislation," he said, "represents the single most important...
...President Fernando Belaunde Terry set up a "Center for the Study of Population and Development" to analyze the country's population problems. In Brazil, a private foundation-sponsored group plans to organize about 600 birth-control information centers.across the country. To help countries help themselves, the Alliance for Progress is investing $1,400,000 this year in 30 cooperative population studies throughout the hemisphere. "Time is of the essence," says former Alianza Deputy Coordinator William
...began as sea-breezy fun and a good-natured rivalry between two newspapers in the same city. For weeks the biggest story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerned one of its own em ployees. The paper kept its readers posted almost daily on the progress of Copy Editor Robert Manry, 48, who set out last June 1 from Falmouth, Mass., for Falmouth, England, aboard the frail 131-ft. sloop Tinkerbelle. Manry dutifully reported news of his crossing to the Plain Dealer via passing ships; once he sent a bundle of letters to his wife, and the Plain Dealer published those...
Ferris, who trains Harvard's Memorial Church choir during the academic year, is enthusiastic about his summer group. "I'm amazed at the progress they've made in six weeks," he said...