Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June he became Xavier's president, a job that throughout the school's 43-year history had been held by white nuns who fully shared lay-Catholic Francis' own concern for improving educational opportunities for blacks. Francis' declared aim is "to steer students into the mainstream of American life," and he has very little patience for the radical Negroes who would rather go it alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math...
...next month, the new Administration must then attempt to find a settlement formula. If he cannot achieve the "honorable" terms he talked of during the campaign, Nixon's prospects for a successful Administration are practically nil. Beyond Viet Nam, Nixon is pledged to a "new diplomacy." Its aim is to concentrate heavily on the search for common ground with the Soviets and the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Alliance, to reach understanding
...intervene in Hun ary in 1956 on Washington's "immoral and suicidal willingness to act as if there were Communist legitimacy." The U.S. had allowed itself to become intimidated by the fear of nuclear war, he said. "Above all," Laird concluded, "while we have the power, we must aim at confronting the enemy directly...
...governor's road-building program, moreover, has always had only one real aim: to move traffic. Time and time again, communities have protested the losses in housing and unemployment which Volpe's hard-driving road program was imposing upon them. Since its founding two years ago, the federal Department of Transportation has been creeping toward a policy of taking a hard look at such costs of building roads before approving them. If he holds true to form Volpe will reverse this trend, making Federal road-building once again simply a matter of pouring concrete along lines dictated by traffic flows...
...Carolina, the former football star is having difficulty deciding whether to accept an offer to train with an N.F.L. team to write about his experiences. "I'm resisting the whirlwind of journalism," he says. "If I've finally achieved any distinction as a poet, then my primary aim is to explore the paths I've so laboriously come on. I've been looking forward for years just to sitting down and writing poems." Dickey has already proved that being a fine poet and a first-rate journalist are not mutually exclusive...