Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After describing each "face" of his administration--the Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress, civil rights, the space program, anticommunism, and an end to the arms race--the camera shifts abruptly to the funeral procession. At one moment, for example, Kennedy is in Costa Rica--speaking, laughing and shaking hands. "He was never to stand in Latin America again," says the narrator, and the scene breaks to a view of the casket in the rotunda...
None of the members of the committee would disclose any information on the progress of their report, but HSA chairman V. Lee Archer Jr. '65 predicted last night that a draft would be submitted to the board of directors in time for the report to be released this month...
Despite all this enchantment, Reporter Haber, Writer Farrell and Editor Cranston Jones hope they kept their journalistic judgment. As for the Tamayo portrait, it stirred mixed feelings in the subject. Said Jeanne: "I was struck by one thing when I saw the portrait [in progress], and that was the strength he found in me-not the strength I have, but the strength I would like to have...
...Accompanied Vice President Hubert Humphrey to National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters for a progress report on the Mariner IV rocket, launched in November on an eight-month flight to Mars. To hear Humphrey talk, Johnson practically invented space flight. Cried the Vice President: "He has put his heart into it, his spirit into it, his hands and his mind into it. And the fact that he was the author of the space act, and not only authored it but shepherded it to success and then nourished it into fulfillment, is, I think, the real strength, the real underpinning...
Aided by the Alliance for Progress and a strong infusion of private investment, Central America's five nations are enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity (TIME, Jan. 1). Politically, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua seem headed toward more or less representative governments, and Costa Rica has become a model constitutional republic. But there is one unfortunate throwback to the old era of machine-gun politics when O. Henry described Central America as a collection of "little opéra bouffe nations that play at government and intrigue...