Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill that passed the Senate in 1957 was a "bitter disappointment" to the civil rights organizations, as they made clear at the time. But the choice was substantially the Senate bill or nothing; we preferred even small progress to political recrimination, and we urged enactment of the bill...
...summit as soon as "developments in the foreign ministers' meeting justify." Britain said it would be "glad" to go to the summit as soon as the foreign ministers' talks "warrant." France said it would be "disposed to accept" a summit only if the foreign ministers made "genuine progress." The notes underlined the very real reluctance of both the U.S.'s Dwight Eisenhower and France's Charles de Gaulle (see FOREIGN NEWS) to be pushed willy-nilly to the summit, as contrasted with the eagerness of Britain's Harold Macmillan to start negotiations at the highest...
...heads of government who are acting voluntarily and because of their beliefs in the possibilities with some kind of grounds for such a belief that real measures can be discussed profitably by all of us." He stressed that a foreign ministers' meeting must first show "progress"-but he was notably vague about what "progress" meant. Back home in Britain, Macmillan simply told the House of Commons: "As regards the likelihood of a summit meeting, I would say everybody seems to think there will...
...village is now doing so well that the CARE adviser makes only occasional visits to check on its progress. Graham French himself is turning to other projects. He gave $10,000 to establish a similar village in South Viet Nam, another $10,000 to rehabilitate 200 wounded Korean veterans in a third village. A fourth $10,000 went to buy 30 fishing junks for two more Korean villages, and yet another $10,000 sent a mobile health unit to combat disease in the Philippines...
...approved models of one-ton mushroom-shaped satellite capsules designed to fly men into space in the early 1960s. The model satellites survived preliminary tests of rocket shots into the atmosphere, drops from high-altitude aircraft, wind-tunnel speeds of 10,000 m.p.h., and justified what NASA termed "significant progress" toward "a safe and reliable, manned satellite capsule...