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Word: role (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading war critics like Dr. Benjamin Spock lumped Soviet aggression with the U.S. role in Viet Nam. Senators McCarthy and George McGovern joined in this view, arguing that American interventions, whether in the Dominican Republic or Southeast Asia, encouraged the Russians to act and also robbed the U.S. of moral authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A SAVAGE CHALLENGE TO DETENTE | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...would mobilize all the resources of the nation to maintain law and order, then told an interviewer less than an hour later: "You know and I know that law and order is es sentially a local problem." Having once dismissed the late Robert Kennedy's proposal of a role for the National Liberation Front in the Saigon government* as akin to putting "a fox in a chicken coop," he said two weeks ago that he and Kennedy "came to have remarkably similar views on Viet Nam." Four ex-Kennedy aides called the comment "false and misleading." Some of Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CONVENTION OF THE LEMMINGS | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...campaign. Junior Senator Fred Harris, a Hubert Humphrey lieutenant, became cochairman. There is even a newly formed "Minis for Monroney" to combat the "Bellmon Belles." Yet the latest polls show that Monroney has slipped behind Bellmon by as much as 6%. No Republican ever rates a shoo-in role in Oklahoma. However, unless Harris goes on the national ticket and somehow sweeps the state, Monroney may get to know Oklahoma much better after the November election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oklahoma: Lament of the Senior Sooner | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...needs in today's age of aspiration is a means of resolving the differences between the two factions in a way that would favor social progress while circumventing the old extremes of reaction and revolu tion. As spiritual mentor of both sides, the church could play a major role in achieving a reconciliation within its flock. But the truth is that the Latin American Catholic church has almost always been identified with the privileged powers, from the days when its priests went ashore with the conquistadors. As a result, there is widespread doubt that it can ever attain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Pope in Latin America | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...year-old witch (played by a nubile blonde), lab-made monsters whose ev ery part is a transplant, a ghost and an agent of the devil. One of the few nearnormal human beings is the matriarch of "Collinwood," the haunted manor that is the scene of the action. That role is filled by the show's top-billed star, former Film Actress Joan Bennett, 58, who says frankly: "You reach a certain age in Hollywood when there's a shortage of glamour roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Ship of Ghouls | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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