Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unceasing in the search for peace, resourceful in our pursuit of areas of agreement, even with those with whom we differ, and generous and loyal to those who join with us in common cause." He pledged continuation of foreign aid to Asia, Africa and, through the Alliance for Progress, to Latin America - but he made no specific mention of controversial aid to countries in Eastern Europe...
...freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson wants no part of it. Neither does Rusk, unless some progress is made on such specific items as the opening of consular offices in several U.S. and Soviet cities or the establishment of air routes. But the British, who seem ready to go to the summit every Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...doubt whether many of the progressive sentiments expressed by the bishops in debate will ever be enacted into legislation. And the only other substantive measure passed at the session is as much a step backward as the liturgical decree is a step forward. Last week the council railroaded through without discussion a schema on communications that tolerates state censorship of mass media, suggesting civil authorities prevent "harm to the morals and progress of society through the bad use of these instruments...
...enlightened age has set about redefining insanity for legal purposes, and can claim modest progress. In 1954, a Washington, D.C., killer named Monte Durham was declared not guilty, not because he could not distinguish right from wrong, but on the larger ground that a criminal should not be held cul pable if "his unlawful act is the product of a mental disease or defect." The so-called Durham Rule, or something like it, has since entered the law of several states (Maine, Vermont and Illinois). By necessity, such progress takes place at a deliberate pace, as the law weighs...
HEAD HUNTERS OF PAPUA by Tony Saulnier. 309 pages. Crown. $7.50. A fascinating account of the progress of a French photographic expedition across the unmapped waist of Dutch New Guinea. The trip, through nightmarish forests and mountain ranges, took six months and yielded the first photographic record of a people frozen in a way of life that began far back in prehistory...