Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July. The two sides sit through twelve more no-progress sessions under the auspices of the National Mediation Board. The board offers to arbitrate. The railroads agree. The unions refuse...
...sign on U.S. Highway 50 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland proclaims: CAMBRIDGE IS NOT JUST A PLACE IT'S PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, an unyielding segregationist, asked Rusk whether he would not "agree that we have been making great progress in this country." Rusk agreed, but added that "there is still unfinished business." Asked Thurmond: "Who has been responsible for that progress-the white man or the Negro?" Rusk replied softly: "Both, working together." Did Rusk approve of the Negro demonstrations?, Thurmond continued. "If I were denied what our Negro citizens are denied," said the Secretary of State, "I would demonstrate...
...idea is to minimize those hours-long mob scenes in Manhattan's sweltering customs sheds, and if it is successful, inspectors will be stationed in other major European ports of embarkation. The whole project marks but an inch or two of progress, according to Customs Commissioner Philip Nichols Jr. In 1962 the bureau had only 2,298 inspectors to handle 158 million people at U.S. ports of entry. Congress refused to authorize any more, has also nixed proposals for 1) a corps of pretty hostesses to aid incoming passengers, 2) a Customs Academy, which would eventually turn out inspectors...
...Paris, Lepp has the credentials to explain the mind of the atheist: he was one himself for 27 years, and a Communist to boot. Born into a family of freethinkers, he joined the party at the age of 15 and unquestioningly assumed that religion was an enemy of social progress: "Since all my teachers were professed atheists, I considered myself to be one also." So long as he was striving for a Communist future, Lepp says, "I felt no need of God." He acquired degrees in medicine and philosophy (and even now, putting aside his cassock, practices psychotherapy). Lepp broke...