Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerned about absence in the treaty of a provision for on-site inspection. U.S. ability to detect cheating is "considerable," he noted; yet the Joint Chiefs of Staff hinged their O.K. of the test ban partly on improvement of detection devices. Russell argued that the treaty would handicap U.S. progress toward developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system, since warheads could only be tested underground. "What a paradox," he said. "We will not buy a simple rifle, or even the most primitive weapon in our arsenal, a bayonet, unless it has been subjected to exhaustive tests under every conceivable condition...
...looks in vain for anything approaching a coherent theme. Miss McCarthy said in an interview several years ago the theme would be "the loss of faith in the idea of progress." What is left of that is an occasional ironic swipe at the shallowness of the radicalism...
...President said that progress is being made on plans for the Fourth House, and that models of rooms for the Fourth House Center will be displayed in Agassis Hall this week...
...four-letter genetic code that carries the information that tells a fertilized cell to develop into a man or a pine tree is now the subject of avid research all over the world. In spite of optimistic announcements, the code has not yet been broken, and no great progress toward breaking it was reported at The Hague...
...noticed was Ingmar Bergman. As a man he didn't look like much-just a gangling, green-eyed, snaggle-toothed son of a Swedish parson. But as an artist he was something unprecedented in cinema: a metaphysical poet whose pictures are chapters in a continuing allegory of the progress of his own soul in its tortured and solitary search for the meaning of life, for the experience of God. In his early films (Illicit Interlude, Naked Night), Bergman struggles to free himself from the fascination of the mother, the incestuous longing for innocence, safety, death. In the dazzling comedies...