Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Howie Foye has been making quiet, unspectacular progress behind the front-runners. Far from being one of the leading lights on last year's freshman squad, Foye made the jump to five miles with ease, running the best race of his career to finish fifth against Brown...
Permanent Minority. After Shafer won the governorship in 1966, Joe Napolitan, a gifted political manager who had worked for the Democrats, inspected his party's hardening arteries and concluded. "The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is ready for a major reorganization." Progress since Napolitan's critique has been nil. Former Governor George Leader observes that his party has shown "no sense of urgency" in coping with its problems...
Aboard the Fearless, Wilson hinted that if Smith could guarantee the principle of "unimpeded progress toward majority African rule," other matters might be negotiated, such as an extended timetable for giving Africans a larger say in ruling Rhodesia. Wilson has also maintained all along that any new constitution must be acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program...
...Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
...cure social ailments as well as autos. He is, for instance, the endower of a new school for militant community organizers, founded by Saul Alinsky. "The time for picketing city hall is over," Sherman says. "We need constructive entities to exert pressure on forces that hold back social progress...