Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political ladder, winning more state, local and national offices each election. Some 90 black mayors are now serving in U.S. cities and towns, including Newark and Gary. That is not surprising, because those cities have black majorities. But last week brought the most dramatic evidence yet of black political progress. Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city, elected its first black mayor, although the Negro population is a distinct (18%) minority. City Councilman Thomas Bradley won because enough whites regarded him not as a black politician but simply as a man deserving of their vote...
...shuttling between an American businessman's home near the golf course of St.-Nom-la-Bretêche and a Communist-occupied villa at Gifsur-Yvette, Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger last week summed up his talks with Hanoi's Le Due Tho in two words: "Significant progress." He declined to disclose details, but it was known that his main effort had been to work out a strict schedule of adherence to the Viet Nam ceasefire. (One major problem: the North Vietnamese demand for the release of all political prisoners in the South and a guaranteed political role...
Saddiqa explained, "We feel that our first duty is to cleanse the university. So far, we have fired three professors of education, men who stood in the way of progress and revolution. Two of these teachers belonged to the Moslem Brotherhood, while the third we suspected of being an American agent. We have also set up a committee of professors to examine all books here and decide which ones to remove from the library. Most of the ones removed so far deal with Marxism...
...distribution of jobless rates among various population groups has hardly changed at all since, say, April 1965 -indicating that the nation has made dishearteningly little progress including blacks, women and youths in productive jobs even in a flat-out boom. And as the boom gives way to an inevitable 1974 slowdown, unemployment rates could well climb next year from the present unsatisfactory level...
...decision to cancel the examination, which was in progress, came after Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration and head of market studies, met with the ten-member Student Education Committee. The SEC representatives told Levitt that an estimated 10 per cent of the 800-member first-year class had advance knowledge of the examination's content...