Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economic Club of Chicago last week, David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, got down to the fundamental role of private enterprise in the Alliance. "It is true, of course," said Rockefeller, "that government can and should supply many of the facilities and services that are prerequisites to progress. I would not argue for a reduction in the aggregate government effort. But the fact is that if the Alliance is to succeed, it must build on the present private-enterprise base, which generates some 80% of Latin America's income." The first "indispensable step," said Rockefeller, is a favorable...
...Work. Under the circumstances, the U.S. has refused all Alliance for Progress aid to British Guiana. And Britain, which last year was ready to discuss complete freedom for the self-governing colony, has now postponed independence indefinitely...
...tiny village, stinking of manure, the mayor told De Gaulle that if the government did not help him get running water installed, the villagers would hang him. The mayor of Donchery churlishly kept his hat on his head while welcoming De Gaulle, and growled that talk of progress was useless "as long as we do not have here a bridge across the Meuse, especially now with the Common Market...
...merger virus swept irresistibly through Jordan. The riotous crowds ended three years of relative political calm, and faced tough little King Hussein, 27, with his deepest crisis. Two-thirds of Jordan's 1,800,000 people are Palestinian Arabs, who care little about the nation's stability, progress or growing industry. Above all else, they are intent on eliminating Israel and regaining their former homes, and see Arab unity as the only way to do it; to them, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seems the only leader capable of achieving their goals...
Knife in the Heart. Perhaps partly by chance, but largely because of Moore's drive and leadership, the great eruption of pioneering progress that is still continuing at the Brigham began soon after he took over as chief. Says one of its most articulate surgeons: "This little place, with only 284 beds, has made more contributions...