Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopes. How, within the enduring framework of U.S. society, to let one change call forth another in some reasonably harmonious order. One of the most important changes on the U.S. scene in September 1955, as the nation's children trooped back to school, was the astounding progress of racial desegregation. In Kansas City, Mo. and Oklahoma City, in Oak Ridge, and Charleston, W. Va., white and Negro children for the first time sat together in classrooms. This simple fact, part of a vast and complex social revolution, resulted from a legal victory: the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions...
...Progress of the States Toward School Desegregation...
...ideal of satyagraha invoked the power of souls when souls were pure, but today's soul force rioting often stirred up by Communist agitators, is really only mass hooliganism. Addressing a crowd of 200,000 in Bihar, amid unprecedented booing, Nehru told students, "In Russia, I saw tremendous progress through discipline and hard work. But you want only chaos and confusion. You cannot even dream of how you would be dealt with in Russia...
Last week, halfway through his six-year term of office, President Ruiz Cortines reported to the Mexican Congress-and by radio to the nation-on his progress in solving the great problem of Mexico. His voice was flat, his prose dry. But there was a hint of justified pride in his tone as he ticked off some of the accomplishments of his administration...
...heart and located the carotid artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12 ft. long. On its tip was a bit of radioactive cobalt, so its progress could be followed with a Geiger counter as it moved up the artery...