Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mansfield is proudest of his support for the 18-year-old's right to vote, his initiation of the Senate Watergate Committee and his role in the formation of a select committee to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency. But he will be best remembered for the loose-reined openness he brought to the conduct of Senate business, and for his early, unrelenting opposition to the Viet...
...London. This view is based on the assumption that South Africa will not enter the war in force on the Rhodesian side, since such a move might trigger an Angola-scale Cuban intervention. At the moment, the British are resigned to the Cubans participating in a training and logistical role. But they do not think Fidel Castro's forces will engage in heavy combat as they did in Angola, unless Smith receives large reinforcements of South Africans or white mercenaries...
...often in the newspapers, subscribed to a press clipping service, and even held press conferences during the long divorce fight. William Rehnquist, joined by four other justices, was unpersuaded. Mindful of the public "need for judicial redress of libelous utterances," Rehnquist held that Mrs. Firestone "did not assume any role of especial prominence in the affairs of society, other than perhaps Palm Beach society, and she did not thrust herself to the forefront of any particular public controversy in order to influence the resolution of the issues involved...
...group, consisting primarily of faculty members from the Economics Department and various University graduate schools, is currently investigating the role of student questionnaires in enhancing interest and self-consciousness in teaching...
...life. This one stand in place of a life." On that dramatic note, Nazi war criminal Albert Speer begins his chronicle of his twenty years in the Spandau prison run by the four Allied powers. Speer, after openly acknowledging his guilt, was convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal for his role in the Nazi use of forced foreign labor in German factories. In his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, published four years after his release in 1966, Speer criticized his fellow Nazis for their refusal to admit any guilt, while professing anguish at his own crimes. He wrote at the outset...