Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most dramatic symbol of the cold war's progress last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was Tibet's Dalai Lama, who, at the cost of physical defeat, won a psychological victory. Red China's rape of Tibet stirred the neutralist powers of Asia as the Soviet rape of Hungary never had. With shock, Asians suddenly realized that there could be "yellow colonialism" as well as "white colonialism...
...economic mismanagement. The Spanish economy has indeed come a long way in the last 20 years. Its industry has grown; new buildings have sprouted in the major cities; and the living standard of its people has risen. But the figures Franco cites to demonstrate Spain's progress are comparisons with 1940 when the country still lay in the wreckage created by the Civil War. Fact is that Spain, which produced 1,000,000 tons of steel in 1929, produced only 1,600,000 tons last year, and the homemade steel still costs more than German steel of better quality...
...Dramatic progress was reported last week in efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
...Browns. In its most virulent form, says Tabori quoting a psychiatrist, stupidity serves "to disguise the truth from ourselves." Milder cases result in folly, credulity, superstition, plain silliness. Men of science have resisted progress with the mindless tenacity of Bourbons. Distinguished experts, including members of the famed French Academy, have on occasion "proved" that there are no such things as meteors and hypnosis; they have shown conclusively that man can never fly, that steamboats and railways will not work, and that the idea of laying undersea cables is preposterous...
...encourage disunity. But both sides are now preparing for another Civil Rights showdown. Northern and Western Democrats vow that they will demand that everybody sign an electoral "loyalty oath"--and the South is planning not to sign. 1960 is still far away, and a great deal depends on the progress of integration in the South. At the moment however, all signs point to at best an unfavorable compromise for the South, and at worst a party split that would probably be more damaging to the South than to the Democratic party...