Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon could make real progress in his quest for the presidency if he keeps asking Humphrey if he cleared it with Daley...
...desperately attempting to straddle the issue, though in the text of his campaign kick-off speech in Washington this week he accused Nixon and the G.O.P. of "openly competing with Mr. Wallace for the votes of people who, at very best, want to put the brakes on our progress toward full opportunity." The frenetic efforts by all the candidates to get on the right side of the issue prompted San Francisco's Democratic Mayor Joseph Alioto to comment: "None of the candidates is running for President. They're all running for sheriff...
FROM the very outset of the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris four months ago, the main obstacle to progress has been the issue of the continued bombing of part of North Viet Nam. Hanoi's representatives have adamantly clung to their long-held demand that the U.S. must stop bombing their territory before anything else can be discussed. The U.S. has persistently and unsuccessfully asked for assurances that Hanoi will reciprocate with some kind of de-escalation of its own once the bombing is stopped. No such assurances have been forthcoming. The result is that the talks have...
...More Lock Step. There will also be more students than ever before. Mayhew argues that all educators will come to recognize that a balanced, liberal arts college education can be absorbed by and helpful to almost everyone, provided that the pressures of grading and lock-step progress are eased. Instead of flunking out, students will be able to stay with a subject until they master it. Mayhew may be overly sanguine in predicting that by 1980 "parents will have accepted the fact that childhood or youth will have extended to 30 to 35 years of age." But with increased life...
...Negroes, and he wants to be proud of his home region. After many years of traveling, he now lives where he was born, in Hartselle, a town of 8,000 in north central Alabama. "There is a decency about people here," he says. He was happy with the racial progress that was being made in Alabama until George Wallace became Governor. "I suppose the reason I keep involved is that I resent Wallace's effort to turn back the clock...