Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small and ordinary managers of today. Roosevelt and his successors could harness immense resources of economic wealth, political power and military might for the state. The New Deal, Lend-Lease, World War II mobilization, the Manhattan Project, the Marshall Plan, the building of the nuclear arsenal and the civil rights legislation of the mid-'60s?all were the work of presidential leaders who used taxation, legislation, executive orders and persuasion to enlist enormous latent resources...
CORETTA SCOTT KING, civil rights activist: In terms of impacting the crucial foreign policy issues we face, I believe Andrew Young deserves special recognition. For the first time in American history, the people of the developing nations have a highly committed spokesman to represent their interests to the President and the American people...
...Vilma Martinez, 35, the daughter of a San Antonio carpenter, worked her way through the University of Texas and Columbia Law School. After concentrating on civil rights for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund and the New York State division of human rights, she moved to San Francisco in 1973 to become the president and general counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. There she has fought skillfully for the rights of 8 million Mexican Americans. Martinez, who herself grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, won a 1974 case before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that...
...Poor Man; Washington: Behind Closed Doors; and, of course, Roots, the most watched program in television history. "We are trying to offer something unique and compelling. True events are rare these days," says Stoddard, who will also begin making films to be shown in theaters. On such subjects as civil rights and Viet Nam, Stoddard's shows have had a substantial impact on mass opinion...
...ever was a time when the radical nature of the Bible needs to be lived out courageously, it is now," says Wallis, a Protestant religious leader and the editor of an evangelical magazine. A Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Wallis was active in the civil rights and antiwar movements a decade ago. Then he turned to religion. After studying at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., Wallis founded Sojourners in 1975, a religious community now totaling 60 people who live together in a poor section of Washington, D.C. Sojourners runs day care centers...