Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...system," require action at all levels. "Municipal, state and federal legislation is essential." The report urged that 1) federal funds should be denied those who discriminate on basis of race, 2) discrimination in higher education should be entirely eliminated by 1970, and 3) "every state must make progress in good faith toward desegregation of publicly supported schools...
...lack of results. But there were other confirmations of its failure. In Peking last week, the People's Daily blasted "modern revisionists" who show themselves not "strong enough in the struggle against imperialism." At that, Moscow's Pravda roared back that the "main danger" to Communist progress nowadays was "dogmatism and sectarianism," i.e., Peking's refusal to accept Khrushchev's doctrine of conquering the world by the slower techniques of coexistence...
Ecuador. President José Maria Velasco Ibarra has a record of social progress, but he also faces a feudal oligarchy so reluctant to change that his reforms may come too hard and too late...
...Progress Abroad. Tabler runs into more resistance to new ideas among U.S. building inspectors than European. "Europeans are eager to accept any new idea we develop that is approved by the fire underwriters," he said. "The London Hilton would cost 10% to 15% more if we were building it in New York." The British accepted easier-to-install copper plumbing and approved a modern plumbing layout that eliminates 80% of the pipe. New York will not, because the plumbers' union objects. Any attempt to change a code brings a cry from labor unions and trade associations. The plumbers complained...
Rivers, except for the big navigable ones, are a little out of date. So dam builders in the Western states are turning them into strings of placid lakes, stocked with fish, vacationers and beer cans. Only unregenerate wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control, irrigation, electrification and the outboard motor industry. Author John Graves is no crank, and from the evidence of his book, he is something of a fatalist. When he heard that a section of the Brazos River valley in the west Texas scrub country, where he grew up, was soon...