Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally candid with the West: the people of free Asia are "impatient ... to reduce their immense technical backwardness . . . They clamor for immediate economic development." Thus, said Diem, the debate among Viet Nam leaders is how "to attain economic progress without sacrificing essential liberties." Their choice is not between economic planning and no planning, but whether progress will take place by democratic or totalitarian means. Vital to the outcome of this debate, Diem warned, "are the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid" from the industrial West. President Diem's implied point: if the West...
Little as he may have sought the distinction, no man in recent years has done so much to stimulate European progress as Gamal Abdel Nasser. Living luxuriously on the memory of the day when Britain and Western Europe between them produced three-quarters of the world's industrial energy, most Europeans complacently accepted the fact that Britain must import 12% of her total energy requirements and Western Europe nearly a quarter. But when Egypt's Nasser seized the Suez, he forced all Europe to face up to the significance of these imports: Europe had lost her industrial independence...
...were driving along the main highway north of Prague in Masterman's car. At a crossroads near Milovice they were stopped by a military policeman and directed to turn off down a side road that bordered on an airfield. About 500 yds. down the road, Masterman found his progress blocked by an army truck planted in the middle of the road. He stopped. Before he could turn around, another truck drove up close behind him, making any move impossible. Six soldiers with submachine guns appeared and surrounded the car. With car and officers pinned there, the Czechs briskly towed...
...know yet how long freeze-dried foods will keep at room temperature. They can be stored in plastic envelopes filled with nitrogen to prevent oxidation, but in the case of meat that contains fat there may be a tendency to deteriorate with time. Elaborate tests are now in progress to find the best ways to package and store them...
...made by U.A.W.; it decided at its convention a month ago to permit skilled and technical workers to bargain separately for higher pay, a move that many employers welcome since it will permit them to give the bigger pay raises they think the skilled workers deserve. Despite this progress, employers are still unable to tap extensively one huge pool of potential skills-the Negro worker -traditionally barred by many craft unions...