Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the end of 1967-nearly four times the number officially permitted to go there since Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Knut Hammarskjold, director-general of the International Air Transport Association and a nephew of the late U.N. Secretary-General, visited Havana last week but kept mum about what progress he had made...
...Hardy Dwarf. The keys to India's new progress are the wheat and rice strains developed by the Philippine International Rice Research Institute and by the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico during the past two decades. Using dwarf grain genes imported from Japan, Rockefeller researchers developed a group of short, sturdy, thick-stalked "Mexican" grains so impervious to seasonal light changes that they can produce two or three crops a year.* Following the disastrous 1965-67 drought, Indian farmers, with intensive field aid from the Ford Foundation, planted some 20 million acres of the new Mexican wheat. The results turned...
...President Zakir Husain, Mrs. King listened to a group of students softly sing We Shall Overcome, and, in a gracious speech, said: "My heart is greatly warmed and my spirit is greatly lifted by this profound recognition. I accept it as a tribute to a well-fought fight in progress. To the great task ahead, I humbly rededicate my life...
...important young artists-and Osaka's shipyard is his workshop. The floating mobile is one of the six nearly identical sculptures that Kenzo Tange, the designer in charge of Osaka's upcoming Expo '70, has commissioned him to provide for the fair's Lake of Progress. "Shingu's mobiles are never ponderous or solemn," Tange says, "but always as they should be: great fun to watch." Many others obviously agree. For their pavilion at the world's fair, Japan's gas companies have commissioned Shingu to create indoor fountains that will frame...
Sizer's letter said, "Paradoxically, the degree to which a university is strong is directly related to the degree to which it is fragile." He condemned intolerance and self-righteous factions on both sides, and inflexible rules, as hampering progress...