Word: role
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning role (1963) in Lilies of the Field as a footloose ex-G.I. who encounters five German nuns in the Arizona desert and winds up building their chapel...
Though he is the most celebrated domestic critic of the war in Viet Nam, Senator J. William Fulbright last week chose to attack it only indirectly - by demanding a more substantive role for Congress in the conduct of foreign affairs in general...
...affirmative action taken by the executive and legislative branches of the United States Government." Too often, said the Arkansas Democrat, the executive branch has sent troops to countries without prior commitments or proper consultation with the Senate. "This resolution," he explained, "seeks to recover in some degree the constitutional role of the Senate in the making of foreign policy-a role which the Senate itself has permitted to be obscured and diminished over the years...
...demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course." Though the Urban League has in many ways changed almost beyond recognition from the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes that was set up in New York in 1910, its role and its goal-"not alms but opportunity"-have remained essentially the same...
Under Young, who joined the league as executive director in 1961, the organization has made a particular effort to find jobs that have never before been open to Negroes or have what the league calls a symbolic "role model" significance. Secretarial positions, for example, are particularly coveted, because a Negro secretary or receptionist, sitting outside the boss's office, tells everyone in a company-more effectively than a dozen interoffice memos-that its policy is to hire Negroes. "If you've got them up on the executive floor," notes Young succinctly, "there is no question." More than...