Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SPUTNIK : The success of the Soviet satellite, followed as it was by a mighty surge of Russian propaganda, made neces sary a re-examination of free-world technological progress. It has long been a cardinal aim of British foreign policy to share in U.S. nuclear secrets; Harold Macmillan would push hard for such a sharing, and in the Sputnik era there seemed a fair chance that the U.S. Congress would at last approve. On a broader basis, President Eisenhower has long felt the need for an overall pooling of NATO scientific talent. At the White House dinner for Elizabeth...
...especially deplored the lack of advance in the field of research and development. He cited three main reasons for this lack of progress...
Stanley F. Teele, President of the Coop and Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, described the continued progress of the Society. He cited an increased membership, more sales, and added floor space as signs of prosperity...
...contrast between this tough atomic-age force and the red-hatted Janissaries of the Ottoman past represents one of the more startling recent transformations of a country driven by a compelling desire for social and economic progress. But the traditional discipline and wariness toward foreigners nonetheless remain the chief characteristics of the Turks, even while their scimitars and blunderbusses have given way to massive quantities of American-made mechanized equipment...
From the start of his novel Author Dudintsev describes, side by side with Lopatkin's progress, what is happening behind the scenes in ministries, bureaus and industrial institutes. All the timeservers and Organization Men in high places are aware of one thing-that a big shot in Moscow has a pet scheme of his own regarding drainpipes, and that no Soviet citizen should ever, if he values his security, "get in the way of influential people." As Bureaucrat Drozdov, the novel's villain, tells Lopatkin: "Your mistake consists in being an individual on his own. The lone wolf...