Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told reporters aboard his campaign plane. "We're not stepping on so many rocks or in so many holes as we were at first." Nobody was convinced that the Vice President had completely cut his bonds with Johnson. Certainly nobody suggested that he had made anywhere near enough progress to cut appreciably into Nixon's vast lead. But some polls taken by the Democratic National Committee showed that he was making progress, and that may be enough to give Humphrey's campaign a shot of desperately needed confidence...
...Progress Cost Money. Belaúnde poured money into education until, by this year, fully 25% of Peru's budget was being spent on schooling-probably the highest proportion for any country on the continent. He attempted agrarian reform and drew some 2,000,000 Peruvians, largely Indians, into Cooperación Popular projects for village improvement. Through it all, he traveled the country tirelessly...
...existence of broad underlying unrest is also shown by the progress of the seizures. The action of the black students in Hamilton Hall was entirely independent of SDS. The seizure of Avery Hall by architectural students was their own movement. The occupation of Fayerweather Hall, in which a large part of graduate study in the social sciences is centered, was apparently spontaneous; no evidence of an SDS connection has come to our attention...
...spent a great deal of time during the past year on campus discussing the facts of the rhetoric of white racism. So I find it very depressing to see the progress made at Tufts regarding dormitory life described in a similarly obnoxious rhetoric. The administration did not "capitulate," nor were "demonstrations...threatened." Indeed, the decisions that were made were not made "by a student-faculty -administration committee." There were no student members voting when the committee took action last week. What there was consisted of a healthy, reasonable dialogue between the students living in residence halls, and the faculty...
...Philadelphia's Progress Enterprises Inc. ($300,000), an enterprising real estate and manufacturing operation controlled by the city's mostly Negro Zion Baptist Church...