Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's first cloud billowed over Alamagordo 23 years ago this month, every U.S. President has hoped to cap his Administration with an agreement designed to avert nuclear Armageddon. Truman described it as "the one purpose that dominated me." Eisenhower called his failure to make any progress in the disarmament field "one of my major regrets." Kennedy's efforts to "get the genie back in the bottle" had some success in 1963's limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and he considered it one of his greatest achievements. Now, in the waning months of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson...
...ring of familiarity. Its major proposals -for limitations on the production of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and restrictions on the movement of nuclear-armed bombers and missile-launching submarines-have been made before, but never came close to being implemented. But the British thought they saw signs of progress. Said one Whitehall official: "There are some points which seem to signify an advance, for they pick up what are earlier Western proposals." The British believe, for example, that Kosygin's proposal for nuclear-disarmament zones might be an oblique response to recent hints from NATO's foreign...
...effectiveness of the candidates on television could change the outcome. Moreover, this conclusion is based on several premises, none of which may be entirely safe. Among them are the assumptions that Humphrey will be Nixon's opponent, that the Paris peace talks will not have made dramatic progress, which could boost Humphrey's prospects, and that ghetto unrest will not flare into disastrous rioting. Given these qualifications, here is how the race for November figures...
...heed the plea of Common Market President Jean Rey to abandon the right to veto major proposals and to give the Market's supranational agencies more power to regulate trade. As Common Market Vice President Sicco Mansholt declared: "The Gaullist victory means an important delay in the political progress of Europe...
Many of Karr's techniques are self-taught. Raised in a musical family in which the father, grandfather, two uncles and three cousins all played the bass, he took up the instrument at nine "without even knowing there were other instruments." He made such rapid progress that he soon ranged beyond the conventional approach to the bass. He studied with a cellist, a pianist and even with Singer Jennie Tourel ("the greatest influence on my phrasing and musical ideas"). After a 1962 appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started...