Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVER SINCE people began to realize that cars, factories, and the other fruits of modern technology often cause as many problems as they solve, Fighting Progress has been an honorable American pasttime. One of the most active current crusaders on this front is William A. Shurcliffe, whose role at Harvard is senior research assistant at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, but whom Congressmen and airplane builders know better as the muckraking director of the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom...
...surprise is Hoffman's secret: it is because no one expects him to be adequate that he excels. From the beginning, he has been the Chaplinesque figure who makes progress through a series of falls. In his favorite posture, looking backward, Hoffman recalled his circular route from Los Angeles to New York in a series of interviews with TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey. Hoffman's father was a furniture designer, middle-class and Jewish. His mother was a movie fan and named him after Dustin Farnum, the silent-screen cowboy (his older brother is Ronald, for Colman). The game...
...study, for example, points out that despite statistics showing dramatic progress in medical care over the past decade, the amount of time the average American can expect, to spend in a sickbed or an institution has remained static. Illnesses stemming mainly from cigarettes, alcohol and a rich diet have undercut the advance...
...lung has become an increasingly serious problem because modern power-operated mining machines churn up far more dust than old-fashioned picks and shovels. Says one United Mineworkers official: "It used to take a lifetime to get black lung. Now it takes only a few years. That's progress...
...shot put featured at 8:30. Harvard captain Dick Benka will square off in the circle against Northeastern record-holder Andy Kenney. Benka tossed the sphere 61'5 1/2" against the Huskies three weeks ago, but has not been over sixty feet since then. Kenney has made steady progress and won the NEAAU title with a heave of 57'11" last Wednesday...