Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week we welcome back an old friend after a two-year sabbatical: TIME'S Show Business section. The editors missed it, and thought perhaps readers did too. The occasion seems particularly appropriate: the staging of Coco, with Katharine Hepburn in her first Broadway musical playing the role of Fashion Designer Coco Chanel. The story was written by another Kate-Katie Kelly, who came to TIME as a researcher in 1966, has been a writer since July 1968. In subsequent weeks, Katie and her co-workers will range over the entire Show Business scene from Broadway to Hollywood-wherever...
...highly personalized manner of his leadership. Scott deliberately follows the reverse course. He is committed to making no under-the-table deals with the opposition, and -partly out of personal conviction, partly because of pressure from his party colleagues-the pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian has moved to spread the leadership role around...
...form of economic colonialism that extracts more than it puts in. "We will not encourage U.S. private investment where it is not wanted or where local political conditions face it with unwarranted risks," Nixon said. "But my own strong belief is that properly motivated private enterprise has a vital role to play." Nixon plainly had in mind Bolivia's recent nationalization of the U.S.-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co. and Peru's seizure last year of the International Petroleum Co. -both so far without compensation. The President said nothing about the use of such punitive weapons...
...view the university professors as the authors of national policies is to credit them with far more power than they actually possess. The role of intellectuals has been more to justify actions after the fact than to make a critical difference in fundamental decisions...
Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design...