Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional Democrats had been aching for months to get back home and start pelting the Eisenhower Administration with a juicy collection of overripe campaign fruit: the "Eisenhower Recession," the "Pentagon Mess" that saw the U.S. lag behind Russia in technological progress, the "Vicuna Coat Case" involving White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams and influence-buying Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine. But last week, about ready to head for the hustings, Capitol Hill Democrats were dismayed to find that the rush of world events had drastically cut into their ammunition supply. Items...
...solid step toward solving the Pentagon's problems. And the historic transpolar voyages of nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate were sharp reminders -along with three satellites aloft, and a spectacular series of record performances by U.S. aircraft-that the nation is much farther along in technological progress than it seemed in the flap after Sputnik I. ¶ President Eisenhower's decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon diverted public attention from the Adams-Goldfine affair -and boosted the President's popularity with the voters. The Gallup poll reported last week that 58% of voters questioned said they...
...outside chill of events rarely interrupted their scholarly labors. Iraq erupted, British and U.S. troops landed, Khrushchev cried that war was about to break out. But in Council Chamber No. 7 at the old League of Nations Palace, Russian and Western negotiators each day made their inch of progress toward agreeing on an international plan for detecting atomic tests. Last week, despite uncommunicative two-line communiques, final agreement was reportedly all but reached...
...centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro's deep ravines and lived by their wits. Their wits have brought them far. Last week the European tourists who panted up the mountain behind studiously nonchalant guides found themselves in a country that is mostly Christian, and brims with more promise and progress than almost any land in Africa...
KNCU's five-story headquarters in the town of Moshi is in itself a symbol of the Chagga's progress. Built around a flowering courtyard of bougainvillaea and poinsettia, it not only houses offices and auction rooms, but also one of Tanganyika's few public libraries. Soon KNCU hopes to build a $15,000 community center for plays, concerts, art and agricultural exhibits...