Word: roles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to her University job, Mrs. Fainsod has also had to contend with the role of "wife to the Chairman of the Department." The responsibility for entertaining visitors plus the responsibility for the newcomers to the department falls upon her. Mrs. Fainsod has also served on the College Tea Committee, which sponsors a series of teas for the wives of newcomers to the University...
Miss Caldwell so far has employed singers who, at their prime, may perform lead roles at New York City Center Opera Company for a few seasons, thence to tour Europe where companies abound and decent voices are harder to come by. Though these artists do not produce an impressive performance, they generally prepare a role with dedication and sing it with dependable effectiveness...
...certain that other members of the Air National Guard, like myself, hope that our role will be determined on the basis of the Air Guard's accomplishments and efficiency, and not upon political considerations or personal vendettas. We feel that the Guard's past record and accomplishments, level of proficiency, esprit de corps, and combat readiness will compare favorably with any organization in the Air Force, regular or reserve...
...hopes, he has brought the army along to grudging acceptance of his offer of Algerian self-determination. Last week came the first military challenge to De Gaulle's authority. It came from the only living Marshal of France-cantankerous, Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, 70, whose once prestigious role in French affairs has diminished over the past five years as a result of ill-timed and ill-conceived forays into military politicking. De Gaulle's offer of self-determination, charged Juin in a newspaper article, was "a bet which cannot come off" and which "has reawakened hope...
Invited Guests. Both assessments were the product of the big new role that the U.S. has quietly begun to play in the hitherto chaotic affairs of Haiti. President François Duvalier invited the U.S. in. Caught between two strong-arm neighbors -Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Dominican Republic's Rafael Truiillo-Duvalier talked enviously of "Jamaica and Puerto Rico, whose political destinies are stabilized by larger countries." The President frankly described his own bureaucracy as "incompetent...