Word: backgrounding
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...Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secretary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd as CAB chairman, though he has virtually no background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched...
Against this background, Dedijer the revolutionary has conceded some points to Dedijer the humanist. He still believes that the "proletarian nations"--the under-developed countries--have a basic right to industrialize. Suppression of the individual, violence, and even Communism, however, are not the only means of revolution. Europe bequeathed to Africa and Asia what Dedijer calls a "double legacy"--a hatred of capitalist exploitation and a love for equality and freedom. This double legacy has been fused into the new revolutionary force of socialist movements of national liberation, which will hopefully remain neutral and avoid the excesses of either...
Dedijer's return to Yugoslavia as a student of his country's past is consistent with his double role of patriot and international intellectual. He defined his book The Beloved Land as "a story of one man's destiny seen against the background of the history of his family and of his country." In his life and work, Dedijer has displayed what C. Wright Mills called "the sociological imagination"--a quality of mind which dramatically links individual and social reality. Born in a land of many cultures and ideologies, he combines within himself a series of paradoxical styles of life...
...nonclerical experience often gives these men a rapport with their congregations that ministers straight out of college cannot have. Methodist Preacher Russ Kemmerer, 33, a moderately successful pitcher in the major leagues for nine years-mostly with the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators-finds his sports background invaluable in counseling youthful members of his church in Monrovia...
...Vietnam. There are high-minded attempts to discuss American war policy, and some of them have a bearing on the current debate on or role in Southeast Asia, but they never succeed in pushing Dave Halberstam, boy reporter writing about the fun and toil of reporting, into the background...