Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill during his 5½ years in the presidency. Target of the salvo: the defense reorganization bill unanimously reported out by "Uncle Carl" Vinson's House Armed Services Committee. When he first laid eyes on the committee's draft in mid-May, the President dubbed it "progress." But close analysis showed that three Vinson & Co. provisions sliced deep into the substance of the Administration's painstakingly thought-out proposal (TIME, April 14). Ike did a slow burn, then burst out with a ringing summons to the House to override its own Armed Services Committee. Charged...
...apathy, which could hardly be dismissed as electoral indifference when 94% of those eligible voted (compared to the 50% average turnout at major U.S. elections), hung over the campaign. Perhaps the reason showed in Party Boss Amintore Fanfani's tepid victory cry: "We can continue to guarantee progress without adventures...
Trying to wrest some sense out of France's wavering progress between civil war and De Gaulle, the French press last week also had to grapple with an old enemy: censorship. Though vague and erratic, the government's censorship was the tightest invoked by any Western democracy since the end of the war. Amateur censors, hurriedly recruited from the civil service, stood watch at all the wire services and most big daily newspapers, heavily blue-penciled many a story...
...feasibility of stopping nuclear tests. President Eisenhower sped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev, proposed that delegations of Western and Communist scientists meet in Geneva next month to discuss ways and means of detecting nuclear explosions. The scientists should aim for an initial progress report in 30 days, a final report in 60 days, wrote Ike, and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should keep the U.N. fully informed of progress. Then the President nominated three topflight U.S. scientists to represent the U.S. The three: Physicist Ernest 0. Lawrence, director of the University of California...
Characterizing his experiment as "a little premature," Griffing plans to leave his facilities intact, wait for progress to catch up with...