Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fuss. No muss. Just progress...
...Just Progress...
Yesterday, for the first time in two months, I entered Widener, only to find that what some people jocosely term "progress" had swept over this bastion of learning. Gone were the little blue cards I had known and loved! In their place were IBM cards with the pompous instructions, PLEASE WRITE FIRMLY TO MAKE CARBON DO NOT BEND CARD...
...almost by accident into the international hotel business. When Puerto Rico decided in 1947 that it needed a first-class hotel to help lure U.S. businessmen to set up shop there, Teodoro Moscoso, chief of the Puerto Rico Development Corp. (and now the director of the Alliance for Progress), fired off letters to leading U.S. hotelmen inviting them to come down. Only Hilton answered promptly, with a warm, friendly letter that began by greeting the Spanish-speaking Moscoso as "Mi estimado amigo." After that, Hilton had no difficulty signing a partnership deal with Puerto Rico to build the Caribe Hilton...
...LIFE memorable picture essays on guerrilla warfare in Korea and the tragedy and triumph of India's bloody partition. In the '50s she faced a more personal ordeal when she found that Parkinson's disease was relentlessly robbing her of muscular control. She slowed the progress of her malady with hours of exercises each day for years; the disease has at last been brought under control by brain surgery...