Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progress Gap." Moreover, Tucker's slum-clearance projects had generated bitter protests among the people who were displaced, mostly Negroes, and among those into whose neighborhoods the displaced were moved. Negro leaders threw their support to Cervantes despite the fact that Tucker had consistently backed ordinances barring discrimination in public accommodations, employment and housing. Finally, Cervantes charged that, for all Tucker's works, St. Louis had suffered a "progress gap," and simply promised to do more faster...
Teachers Who Explain. Some of the boys dropped out, one because he missed his hunting dog. Of the 140 who stayed, only ten showed little or no improvement in their 3-R skills. The progress of 55 boys was classed as "extremely positive." McAndrew reports that "the vast majority" grew in "poise and responsiveness." A retiring 14-year-old with a thumb-sucking habit turned into a conversational leader. Wrote one mother about her son: "It seems hardly possible how much he has matured. He has found himself." Says Student Dewey Long: "The teachers here explain a subject so that...
...recent progress, East Germany looks today much like West Germany did 15 years ago. Last year its national output climbed 4.7% , to $5.5 billion; by comparison, West Germany's production soared 9%, to $102 billion. While few are hungry or homeless, the country is drab, shabby and without shine. The characteristic Iron Curtain odor of ersatz gasoline fumes and onions fried in cheap grease permeates the atmosphere. The average person's monthly income is 600 East marks, or $270 at the unrealistic official rate of exchange, but only $38 at the free market rate. A pound of coffee...
Although on a leave of absence from the College, Mrs. Bunting has been in Cambridge once every other weekend to supervise her undergraduate seminar on bacteriology and to check on the progress of the library-study center being constructed on Garden...
Bernard Asbell is a salesman for Progress. He believes that the "whole new thing happening in America" is a good thing that will get even better as soon as people learn to trust it. The "whole new thing" is automation, and the motto Asbell wants to inscribe over the escalator to the future is (freely rendered) "materialistic mind over matter...