Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs. But to blame the President for the failure in most unjust. The opposition to federal intervention, the segregation issue, the burden of the military, the wide-spread fear of the large deficit, the church issues--all of these, not the President's lack of interest, explain the slow progress. Even with the support of Senator Taft, and before segregation became an issue, the government failed to put across a federal aid to education bill in the late 1940's. Seymour E. Harris '29 Littauer Professor of Political Economy Harvard University
...Caracas this week, the finance ministers of 20 Hemisphere nations will hear a report on one part of the Alliance for Progress that no one complains about. It is the Inter-American Development Bank, a sort of hemispheric version of the World Bank, founded three years ago in Washington and run ever since by Chile's Felipe Herrera, 40, an able and articulate economist. To give the bank its $1 billion capital, the U.S. subscribed $450 million; Latin American nations put up the rest, each giving according to its wealth. On top of this the bank also administers...
Because the thalidomide babies have above average intelligence, Dr. Hauberg and his colleagues are already theorizing about "some mysterious process of natural compensation." Parents, too, are invariably impressed by the progress of their children. Last week one mother watched proudly as her two-year-old son Kurt, who has only tiny arm stumps and whose feet are attached to his buttocks, reached for a ball with his new, artificial arm. "He's never done this before," she marveled. In another room, a four-year-old boy earnestly practiced opening and closing belt buckles. "At first we thought everything...
Draper cites other early indications of the second revolution's progress. At the congress of the Cuban Confederation of Labor in November, 1959, the 26th of July Movement could have "scored an overwhelming victory over the Communists." It failed to do so because Castro appeared unexpectedly and intervened on behalf of the Communists. By 1960 the Confederation of Labor was completely controlled by Communists. In early February, 1960, the President of the PSP (Partido Socialista Popular) publically equated anti-Communism and treason. The same month Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan signed the first Soviet-Cuban agreement in Havana, "amidst an official...
...York Times printed shortly after the book was released, Draper explained the apparent inconsistency between this behavior and Castro's proposals a few days later at an inter-American economic conference. There Castro called for a $30 million aid program, similar to the subsequent Alliance for Progress. Draper says this proposal was just propaganda. At least one writer has reported Castro's worries that his trip to the U.S. would make the Cubans think he had sold out. If this is true, then Castro must have thought that asking for aid, or simply accepting it, would confirm many of their...