Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked Senator J. William Fulbright, does the Pentagon need to spend American taxes to learn the black arts of Congolese witch doctors? Fulbright's query momentarily hexed Dr. John S. Foster Jr., the Defense Department's director of research, into an admission of ignorance. But in releasing Foster's testimony before a closed session of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon last week righted the record. Witchcraft, it contended, is part of modern warfare: the $522.50 study analyzed the key role of Congolese sorcerers in the 1964 Simba uprising, when U.S. aircraft dropped Belgian paratroopers...
...S.C.L.C. While King, with his soaring eloquence and philosophical moorings emerged as the country's leading civil rights figure, Abernathy became the whip of the movement, and his humor and gift for mediation were invaluable. "When we were in jail," recalls Wyatt Tee Walker, once executive director of the S.C.L.C. and now aide to Nelson Rockefeller, "he would organize things, like appointing a cleanup detail. Martin would never go to jail without him." Abernathy was jailed 19 times with his leader. In appreciation of his fidelity, King named Abernathy as his successor three years...
Since the assassination riots, according to the city's public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...feet. After getting a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, he set up practice in Kankakee, joined the Young Democrats, met Kerner, and won election in 1936 as Kankakee state's attorney despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty after a typhoid epidemic killed more than 50 inmates at a state mental hos pital. Shapiro has been an impassioned crusader for mental health ever since. After antisubmarine duty as a naval officer in World War II, he served seven terms in the legislature before being...
Voices of the Poor. As a candidate, White earned the adjective "bland." No one describes him that way now. Not only has he listened to the voices of the poor; he has put them in positions of power. The former education director of the N.A.A.C.P., Paul Parks-who also happens to be an able civil engineer -was put in charge of the Model Cities program; a welfare mother was named to the public-welfare board, whose highhandedness she had protested in a raucous sit-in. As a result of White's concern for Negro neighborhoods, his critics now call...