Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very happy to announce the appointment of Otto Fuerbringer as chief explorer of Time Inc.'s interests and opportunities in the newspaper field. As you all know, the company hopes to develop a role in daily newspaper journalism, and we are asking Fuerbringer to take charge of our studies of where, when, and how. He will be directly responsible to Andrew Heiskell, Jim Linen and myself...
...gesture by the North. After that, they expect the U.S. to offer a $1 billion rebuilding program to the North while Hanoi agrees in turn to quit using the Demilitarized Zone as a staging area and to halt infiltration. Then will come the thorniest issue of all-the future role of the Viet Cong in the South...
Faircloth made a thinly veiled appeal to racism, chiding Collins for his role in bridging the races as L.B.J.'s former director of the Community Relations Service. "This isn't the same Collins who was Governor," he said, "and he helped to bring on the tragic lawlessness of today." Faircloth attacked the federal open-housing bill, praised Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's "maim or cripple" order for looters, and denounced the Administration for "coddling criminals and rioters...
...more positive action and less anguished oratory," Rockefeller contrasted himself with Nixon: "He's been a legislator, and I've been an administrator. I have great respect for legislators. I'm fully aware of the importance of laws. But I think government has a tremendous role to play of a positive character. I think maybe I'm a bit more aggressive about it than Mr. Nixon...
...palliating deprivation but in enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty. Better medical care for poor children and early educational programs like Head Start, followed through with continuing vocational training, cultural enrichment, and ultimate employment, would grant a meaningful role in the mainstream of American life to all citizens. Such an attack would in the long run prove a sound investment, in lives as well as dollars, for a society with both the conscience and creative resources to hold out for all its people the actuality of the American dream...