Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen stars in his own play about a young man who is rejected by girls even in his fantasies. Though the play does not properly progress along with the evening, Allen's nimble jokes and kooky angle of vision are amusement enough...
...BEARD is an Oriental Pilgrim's Progress in which Japan's Akira Kurosawa explores the psychology of an ambitious young doctor so deftly that one man's frailties and strengths add up to a picture of humanity itself...
...only way to progress toward a solution of the starvation problem is to feed only people who can help themselves. Each time we rush to counteract a famine, kill disease-carrying mosquitoes or build hospitals in a backward country we aggravate their own problem...
...Nixon seemed to be heading in that direction when he said: "The time is approaching when South Vietnamese forces will be able to take over some of the fighting fronts now being manned by Americans." The Administration has previously said that three conditions are necessary for a unilateral withdrawal: progress in Paris, a reduced level of fighting, and an improvement in the defensive capabilities of the South Vietnamese. In truth, any one, or even the appearance of any one of these conditions might induce Nixon to take a welcome unilateral step...
...they related the need for more American investment capital, both private and governmental, the end of discriminatory tariffs and of quotas for their exports. They expressed concern over the moribund Alliance for Progress, since 1961 the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to Latin America. Congress cut Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...