Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shattering of summit illusions, the President stressed, did not mean an end to the search for peace. "Despite our recent disappointment, progress toward the goal of mutual understanding, easing the causes of tensions and reduction of armaments is as necessary as ever. We shall continue these peaceful efforts, including participation in the existing negotiations with the Soviet Union. We shall not back away, on account of recent events, from the efforts or commitments that we have undertaken. Nor shall we relax our search for new means of reducing the risk of war by miscalculation, and of achieving verifiable arms control...
...point in Khrushchev's thinking apparently came in late April, when Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, in a speech to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. meeting, echoed Secretary Herter's warning that there was little prospect for significant agreements being reached at the summit, and implied that any progress at all depended on Soviet willingness to abandon its demands on West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon...
...pretty young Florida housewife who has suffered increasingly severe heart trouble since childhood reported proudly last week that she is now able to fix one meal a day, and hopes soon to go back to her office job. The secret of her progress is embedded in her heart. It is like a miniature bird cage. At the point where the aorta (the body's main artery) begins, surgeons have removed part of nature's valve, which was diseased, and replaced it with an ingenious steel-and-plastic gadget...
...Mexico's The Young One, made by Director Luis Buñuel, somewhat unoriginally followed the progress of a game warden (Zachary Scott) as he successfully arouses the sexual appetite of a 13-year-old girl...
...region and make it autonomous. Secession-minded Moise Tshombe's Conakat group, 1,000 miles away in Elisabethville, was demanding the same privilege for its mineral-rich Katanga province, which produces 65% of all the Congo's income. Each was fighting Paul Bolya and his moderate National Progress Party as well as the militant group of Albert Kalonji...