Word: acted
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Talk and Listen and Act. Another, and more serious, problem is the drift of authority toward Washington. With sophisticated communications equipment available, and the threat of nuclear war always present, local commanders tend to look to the capital for guidance in crises. This Washington reflex is not discouraged by Government officials. They are rightfully concerned with keeping tight rein on the military. As President Kennedy once said: "I don't want some sergeant starting World War III." Yet the Pike report demonstrates that a better balance must be found if local commanders are not to be paralyzed in cases...
...Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will to act. We do have the resources, but you are living in tomorrow. The victims exist today...
...said I was trying to go fifty-fifty. 'Fifty-fifty, hell,' he said. 'It's your scene. Take it.' Then he added under his breath, 'If you can.' " The master of the western, Director John Ford, calls Wayne "a splendid actor who has had very little chance to act." Agrees Director Andrew McLaglen: "All of a sudden they're saying that he's an actor. Well, he always...
...bishops and cardinals assembled in Kampala last week demonstrated that they were enjoying independence. They approved a plan to strengthen their autonomy with a permanent pan-African secretariat empowered to call meetings of the African bishops and act as a communications clearinghouse. When Pope Paul arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church. In Rugaba Cathedral, Tanzania's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa pledged the symposium's "total solidarity" with Rome (last year, the bishops had praised the Pope's birth control encyclical). Then Paul...
...simplest policy decisions now meet extensive delays. For example, a regulation that would apply the requirements of the Truth in Lending Act to margin loans has been debated since May without a decision, and no final action has been taken on a proposed rule regarding corporate names. Under the rule, a company's registration statement to sell stock would be deemed misleading if the company's name contained such words as "missile" or "space" but the firm did no work in those fields...