Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris West. In a powerful novel, a Roman Catholic writer explores man's spiritual hope of heaven and material faith in earthly progress-framed by a dialogue between a Pope and a Soviet leader...
With chapters in 65 cities, the Urban League seeks civil rights progress through biracial consultation and cooperation. For that reason it is sometimes accused of Uncle Tomism-but smart, tough Director Young, 42, is certainly no Uncle Tom. Educated at Kentucky State College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota, he was dean of the Atlanta University School of Social Work when selected for his Urban League post. As soon as he assumed Urban League leadership, he stepped up the organization's pace. A veteran staffer protested: "We don't work this fast." Replied Young...
...find out what is going wrong with the Alliance for Progress, the OAS last November commissioned two distinguished Latin Americans-Juscelino Kubitschek, former President of Brazil, and Alberto Lleras Camargo, who had just finished his term as President of Colombia. Their separate reports last week made disheartening reading...
...Lines, spoke to a conference of mutual casualty companies in Miami Beach, winged off with some jet-propelled gibes at: the U.N. ("The worst catastrophe that has hit the free world since World War II ... Let's sever relations with all those hypocritical blackmailers"); the Alliance for Progress ("In five years there will be a thousand more millionaires in South America, in ten years this will simmer down to a few hundred multimillionaires ... all of which is your money"). And finally: "Why do newspapers dignify Khrushchev with the title of Premier, Castro with the title of Premier or Doctor...
...African critics take Schweitzer's insistence on primitiveness as an insult, or a needless prolongation of "the white man's burden." Symbolically, they point out, he and his staff still wear pith helmets. The concept that the Dark Continent can make more progress through independence is, to Schweitzer, folly. Told that the Peace Corps is building primary schools all over Gabon, and that the little country has 14 medical students training in France, Dr. Schweitzer merely chuckles and says of the blacks: "You cannot change their mentality." Among his six doctors and 17 nurses, there...