Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew the Aga Khan as an ardent turfman whose stables had produced five Derby winners. (The day before his death, a thoroughbred named Damseesa, carrying his flashy red and green silks, romped home an easy 14 to 1 winner at Paris' Le Tremblay.) Gossipists eagerly followed his own progress through four marriages, and the gaudier romances of his son, Prince...
...work that could be handled by 30,000. Graft and nepotism still creep in. Pemex must import $70 million worth of high-grade petroleum products yearly (but exports $45 million worth of crude oil plus some refined products). Its reinvestment rate is not high enough for any truly spectacular progress. But Bermudez does not propose to sacrifice Pemex welfare trappings in risky gambles on fast development. The success to date, he believes, plentifully fulfills Pemex' motto: "For the service of the nation...
...drop in polio in the U.S., the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. Alexander Langmuir saw increasingly good results ahead: "With increasing immunization of the population under 40, a steady reduction in paralytic cases can be confidently anticipated." Denmark, long hard-hit by polio, had the brightest progress report: 99% of children up to the age of nine and 90% of all Danes aged ten to 40 have had shots, and the disease now occurs only sporadically. Around the world, 75 million people have had one or more shots of vaccine...
...this perhaps indicates that the public today is better able to judge the theatre than it was two decades ago. But Strasberg is correct in emphasizing that much progress remains to be made in this regard, that for the first time we have today the possibility of a well-trained audience...
...Mediterranean world made only fitful contact through commerce and, occasionally, war; the spread of Islam and the Mongol invasions actually "cut off Europe from any direct knowledge of the East." In Act II, lasting roughly from the 16th century to the early 20th, the West, vitalized by ideas of progress and purpose in man's life, turned its power on a static East still lost in the illusion that this world is an illusion. In Act III, the last quarter-century, the East is fighting back with aggressive nationalism and/or Communism...