Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are some reasons for optimism. Substantial progress has been made in the central highlands, where U.S. Special Forces teams have molded 150,000 montagnard tribesmen into a tough, well-trained jungle force that is effectively harassing Viet Cong supply lines from Communist North Viet Nam. The government has embarked on a crash program to construct some 12,000 "strategic hamlets." fortified villages where the peasants will be guarded against Viet Cong attacks by trained, well-armed militiamen. Already 9,750,000 people?65% of the population?have been settled in the 7,500 hamlets that have been built...
Even though a meeting will probably be held on Aug. 15, little hope can be held out for any real progress. The NAACP's first objective is to obtain an admission from the School Committee that de facto segregation exists in the local school system. Both Mrs. Hicks and School Committeeman Thomas Eisenstadt have already indicated they will not reverse their refusal to recognize such a charge...
...audience: "Men twenty centuries ago were already just such as you, and spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier." And in a postscriptal Note to the play Shaw said, "The notion that there has been any ... Progress since Caesar's time ... is too absurd for discussion" (but he goes on to discuss it anyhow...
...white parents in Montclair, N.J., who filed a federal suit under the 14th Amendment, claiming that Negro children were allowed free transfers while theirs were not. The long-honored concept of the neighborhood school-a homey place that children can walk to, a living symbol of local pride and progress-seems in danger...
...deeply scientific confab on one of humanity's most distressing problems, the unexpected heroine was a quiet Englishwoman who presented no paper and who is, of all things, editor of a semiannual Mouse News Letter. Since the first such conference in London three years ago, the most noteworthy progress in unraveling the mysteries of human heredity has been based on the work of Geneticist Mary F. Lyon, 38. Born in Norwich, daughter of a civil servant, Mary Lyon got a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, specializing in mouse genetics. She now works at the Radiobiological Research Unit at Harwell...