Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro churches throughout America subscribe to a scholarship fund for bright, poor Negro youths. Let the middle-and upper-class Negro of America concentrate on the ghettos and talk to the boys and girls there, and let them know that there is a big world outside and they must aim for it. Let the American Negro have the courage to love, even where that love might not be returned. In short, I hope that the American Negro, in the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, will play it long, strong and very cool...
Rarely since the war began have the Vietnamese been so united in purpose about any national aim. The need for mobilization has the support of the country's press, its political parties, its churches. Even the militant Buddhists have not objected, which amounts to positive support from them. Virtually all members of the National Assembly back the idea-but the Assembly is jealous of its recently created powers. When Thieu last week sent the Assembly a terse, 60-word draft asking for authority to mobilize the country's manpower and resources, the Assembly balked at the lack...
Ayub hoped that Kosygin would do considerably better in private. His aim was to persuade Kosygin to stop selling SU-7 bombers, submarines and ground-to-air missiles to India, or else start selling them to him. Cut off from most new weaponry since the five-week border war with India in 1965, except for a few Communist Chinese planes and tanks, Ayub feels that the balance of subcontinental power is tilting in favor of India-and remains unconvinced by Russia's claim that India's arsenal is only for use against Red Chinese invaders. Furthermore, Pakistan wants...
...music, theater, poetry and films. To further the love-in between the arts, the ICA picked as its new director Michael Kustow, 28, a bearded, bumptious young iconoclast whose background has been not in art but as a jack of all trades for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His aim, says Kustow, will be to put on not only exhibitions "but a new kind of show." Actually, he adds, "I think of this place as much more a television studio than a gallery." He has already drawn up a pell-mell schedule calling for experimental films and plays, a production...
Here at TIME, our aim was the same as it is every week-except a little more so. We try to channel the flow of events into a coherent pattern of stories, to emphasize the important details and, whenever possible,to provide perspective...