Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither bad air nor bad weather got in the way of the Pioneer Project at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif, where Correspondent John Wilhelm reported on the progress of the first missile ever scheduled to leave the solar system. "During high school years," Wilhelm says, "T used to haul an antique, three-inch brass reflector telescope through the attic to the roof of our St. Petersburg, Fla., home to look at Jupiter and its satellites, rings of Saturn and other celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked...
...been running Denmark for the past 28 years, many Danes voted for a party that literally hopes to dismantle the government. Headed by Mogens Glistrup, a maverick millionaire lawyer who boasts that he has paid no income tax for the past six years (TIME, April 9), the Progress Party wants to get rid of large numbers of Denmark's 600,000 civil servants until the country is freed from their "paper fiddling...
...have had even greater cause for satisfaction. A growing body of theorists predicted that left revolutions would not happen in industrializing, urbanizing nations. Revolutions were a "disease" which afflicted peasant societies. They believed that the proper innoculation was rapid economic growth. This was the theory behind the Alliance for Progress--the United States would still intervene militarily when it saw its interests threatened--Cuba, 1961, Dominican Republic, 1965--but armed force was only one of a two-edged sword. Economic aid and investment, the other edge, would finance the construction of factories and cities, give birth to stable urban working...
While all the new doubts about the integrity of Nixon's tapes set back the progress of Nixon's Watergate counterattack, he plunged on with...
...illness-will eventually provide the key to understanding and controlling cancer. Last week that conviction was strengthened when some 2,000 of the world's foremost medical scientists met in Manhattan under the joint sponsorship of the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute to report their progress in human cancer research. Among the most recent findings...