Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reduced are requests for funds for long-term development loans. Johnson wants $780 million for that purpose, pledged that the money would be "concentrated where it will contribute to lasting progress." About $507 million would go to the seven countries that have best helped themselves under U.S. aid and have avoided expenditures on "unnecessary armaments and foreign adventures": India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Brazil and Chile. To underwrite loans and grants for the Alliance for Progress, Johnson asked for $580 million this year-$70 million more than Congress appropriated in 1964. To justify the increase, the President cited convincing statistics...
Their tournament, the University Squash Championship for the Foster Trophy, is now in progress for the 14th year. The tournament is not publicized; no notice of it can be found outside Hemenway Gymnasium. And yet there are 123 entrants this year, ranging from freshmen to professors...
Meanwhile, Miss Levine spoke to reporters from Time, Life, and Newsweek, asserting that her candidacy was within the "Harvard Tradition" of enlightened progress: that tradition is best served by intelligent challenge...
...scene changes again, and I'm at the football stadium. A game is in progress, but everyone in the stands seems to be reading. Interception by Harvard! Carried to the Yale three yard line! The cheerleaders lift their megaphones...
...loyalty to Lyndon and to the Democratic Party, Carl Albert has an even deeper pride in Congress as an institution. A liberal, he nevertheless scorns doctrinaire liberals-and political scientists-who seem to favor the executive and judiciary branches, rather than the legislative, as the main instruments of progress. "A legislature in a country like ours, more than either the executive or the judiciary, has the power to effectuate new policy in a democracy. Its consensus is more of a national consensus than any other. And this very fact causes the legislature to be the real corner star...