Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John P. Spiegal, director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, was the third speaker at the Forum. Describing the preconditions for riots. Spiegel labeled Black Nationalists 'transitional figures." When they see no progress, he said, "they begin to revise the structure, preparing a new configuration of values which move in a revolutionary direction...
...believe that all this would never have happened to steel if Andrew Carnegie were alive. But as a general proposition, it is inescapable that as we get richer there should be some things-and important things-that we are too rich to do cheaply. We must believe in progress-and we must never suppose that it hurts no one. Quotas and tariffs are not the answer...
...Stiff Price. The road's progress outside Peru is also impressive. Though Ecuador and Colombia have not gone beyond the planning stage, Venezuela has already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after...
Basic Allowance. Speaking at a National Industrial Conference Board meeting in Manhattan, Miller assailed the "unsatisfactory progress" of the nation's existing welfare system by pointing out that there are some 30 million low-income Americans, of whom fewer than 8,000,000 receive public assistance. Present programs, said Miller, "are failing to reach many of those who need help most. Some of the poor now receive help from two or more programs, while others in desperate need receive nothing...
...they also came to a new idea of progress: left alone, America could solve all the problems that Europe never could. They found that the New World was not worse but better, he added...