Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present his case in person. At the hearing, the board subjects claimants to a cross-examination which is often hostile. If the local board still refuses to classify him I-O, the claimant may take his case to the state appeal board. This entails an FBI investigation of his background and a hearing with a Department of Justice Hearing Officer. On the basis of the hearing the Department of Justice recommends to the state appeal board where to grant CO status. If the appeal board denies the claim, the CO has one last appeal to the President...
Scofield thrives on this kind of variety. "I am a classical actor by background," he explains, "but I prefer working in plays by contemporary playwrights. My initial falling in love with a play is an emotional reaction. If I'm then going to make out of the play a performance which has any stature or substance, then I will have to apply to it whatever intellect I possess...
Standing in the background at yesterday's ceremonies at the Whittier St. branch of the Shaw Settlement House was a small group of planning professionals, mostly Harvard, M.I.T., and Brandeis faculty members, and have banded together as an organization called Urban Planning...
Wehner, 60, is a powerful and puritanical figure in the coalition government that took office last month. He has never run for election and has never before accepted a government office of any kind, preferring always to remain in the background. Until recently, he operated out of an office so small that he could fit in only one visitor at a time. For the past eight years, however, he has been deputy chairman-and the organizational brains-of Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party...
...turn out in 90 days," says retired Lieut. General James Gavin, an academy graduate. In today's Army, the diplomacy, political savvy and staff skills of a career officer may prove as pivotal as his mastery of firepower; needed are not rote answers but a broad background of educational experience. "The fellow who spent his whole career first as a platoon leader, then company commander, then battalion adjutant just doesn't exist any more," explains Lieut. Colonel William F. Leubbert, Ph.D., one of the Point's professors. "Now he's dealing with Government contractors, diplomats...