Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bats In Colombia. Some of the studies are indeed arcane. Foster did not say why the military is spending $6,462 to discover how Korean women divers adapt to cold, or $21,120 for an Israeli institute investigating how kibbutz life affects the leadership abilities of young men-although with a little imagination one can see how such subjects might be mildly pertinent to U.S. training. Nor did Foster volunteer information on a $10,500 study on nonviral microparasites in Colombian bats, or $2,500 given to a Japanese university to record the sun's eclipse in Peru...
Abernathy (see box), who became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and took charge of the Poor People's Campaign when the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, moved into the tent city after some of its citizens lambasted him for living at the nearby Pitts' motel. He was then appointed mayor of Resurrection City by acclamation...
QUESTION: Political leadership, in other words, is capable of working with the poor community...
...face of abject powerlessness." But Kilson's article is not a mere sideswipe. Behind the article is an as yet unexplored theory which holds that among the ghetto's natural entrepreneurs--the numbers runners, small money-lenders, pool room owners--might be the best place to look for leadership. The article is more imaginative than Jenkins', but both shun cant to look for power...
...Harvard Teaching Fellows Federation, formed last year with much enthusiasm, had faded, partly due to our failure of leadership, but also to a lack of commitment by the majority of teaching fellows. The Dunlop Report, and the failure of the administration to respond to letters by sympathetic faculty members in our behalf, indicates how important it is for teaching fellows to act to improve their own situation. It is really too late to do anything this year about one of the most exploited groups in the Harvard community. But if anyone is interested for next year in reviving what...