Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that 41% believe the U.S. should never have sent troops to Viet Nam in the first place, a percentage that has risen steadily from 24% in August 1965, and that 56% think the allies are stalemated or losing the war. Only 34% said they believe the allies are making progress...
Pennies for Progress. Designed and built by TRW systems, each OGO is a refrigerator-size box with 14 simultaneously operating instruments pointing in five directions. To maintain the proper altitude for the instruments, the core contains sensors and controls that are used to stabilize the craft. One face al ways points toward earth, another toward the sun, another away from the earth, one away from the sun, and a fifth in the direction the OGO travels. When two 20-ft. instrument booms and two solar panels are fully extended, the OGOs are 49 ft. long and almost 20 ft. wide...
...hard to go into the poorest section of Roxbury and amass a sympathetic audience by enumerating Whitey's misdeeds over the years. It is easier, in fact, to do that then to construct a Black Movement based not on racial hatred but rather on political, economic, and social progress in the Negro community...
...wrongs and disabilities have, in fact, been significantly reduced, certainly not ended. "We've come a long, long way," preaches Martin Luther King, "we've got a long, long way to go." The limited progress has come in many kinds of ways: long-ago philanthropies of Northern white idealists who financed many of the Negro colleges; the verve, bounce and guts of Negro athletes and entertainers; the quieter achievements of Negro professional and business people; the great national economic surges that have pulled millions of Negroes into Northern industrial employment; and in the past 13 years, since Brown...
...sculpture at Expo is mostly co temporary, explains Arts Adviser J. Jacques Besner, because "every exposition provides a chance for the world to take inventory of man's progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more...