Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of his lost weight. He was feeling "stronger and stronger," he told his doctors. The physicians-the White House's Howard Snyder, Walter Reed Hospital's Leonard Heaton, Philadelphia Specialist Isidor Ravdin-all agreed. "The President," they reported, "has had a very satisfactory week. His convalescent progress has been steady and uneventful...
...official program of the Republican National Convention was on the presses. "Peace, Progress, Prosperity" read the slogan on the cover; "Unity" read the label near the top. The illustration: a photograph that at first glance looked like unity, all right. It was a famed sculpture by France's Auguste (The Thinker) Rodin (1840-1917), showing three muscular men, their lowered heads together, their arms and bodies touching one another with fluid force. They were also nude...
...confraternity of science, the watchword at Springdale is cooperation. New ideas and findings are interchanged within our own laboratories, among our printing and paper suppliers and throughout the entire industry. More than a thousand visitors a year from the graphic arts call at Springdale, some to see work in progress, others to ask questions and discuss mutual problems. "Anyone who taps on our door gets in−they all bring us ideas," says Research Director Roswell ("Bud") Fisher...
Just one week after the Administration's new $1,250,000,000 soil bank opened for business, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson reported some heartening transactions. "Good progress," said he, "is being made in Kansas, Illinois, Texas and Iowa." In Iowa alone, between 12,000 and 15,000 farmers have signed up for the plan; county agents are guessing that as many as 75,000 of Iowa's 192,000 farms will participate in the plan before the July 20 deadline...
Historically, the critics are right. The technological advances of the past century have stemmed from uncommitted experimentation. As G.E.'s Nobel Prizewinning Irving Langmuir points out: "Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from a planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the scientist to follow his own curiosity in search of truth...