Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realized that the technology would take many years to develop, but it was a great boost knowing that we ultimately knew a way to make X-ray astronomy very sensitive," Giacconi remembers. Before HEAO-2 could become a reality, though, X-ray astronomy would have to make sporadic progress. In 1962, a group headed by Giacconi discovered the first X-ray star; eight years later the same personnel were responsible for the first orbiting X-ray observatory (named "UHURU" after the Bantu word for freedom...
...there was still a mystique about leaders. Professors, priests, parents, and presidents commanded respect. Many of the brightest sought protection in being close to power in government, corporations, law firms, big newspapers. But we were learning that there was no progress without courage and vision. I visited Harry S. Truman in Kansas City, to interview him for The Crimson. In 1948, we had been the only Massachusetts paper to support him. "Aren't you a funny magazine?" he asked. "No, we try to be serious," I answered. What did he think of President Eisenhower? "How can he let that bastard...
After a visit to the land of frankincense and myrrh, nomads and warriors, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis sent this report on the country's quest for progress amid the turmoil of oil politics...
...crucial triumph, however, belonged to Director Francis Ford Coppola, whose incomplete, much delayed, $30 million Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse Now, shared the Golden Palm for Best Picture. Coppola had entered his movie, which stars Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando, as a "work in progress"; presumably, he was awarded a prize in progress...
Energy is only part of the problem. Another disturbing symptom is the state of American productivity, which after several years of declining growth has in recent months actually dipped below zero progress. America began to play its great role in the world not so much through military power as through its immense productive capacity. Productivity is not simply a matter of people willing to work hard, although that remains a major factor. It is also a matter of maintaining healthy machines and plants, capital investment and innovation. In most of these areas, America now lags behind many other nations...