Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe it timely to state explicity what certain of these rights and responsibilities are and to establish procedures for their protection and enforcement. The present formulation is an interim statement, limited to activities that touch on the essential functions of a university. We recognize the need to formulate, in the near future a document that will emerge from the widest discussion within and will reflect a wide consensus of all members of the Harvard community. This statement shall apply equally to students, to officers of instruction, and to officers of administration...
...favors; 53% of blacks agree. Yet 66% of the blacks questioned by Harris' interviewers contended that '"it helps to know people" in getting ahead, while only 33% of the whites thought so. Again, "If you don't look out for yourself, nobody else will" is a statement accepted by 75% of the Negroes but only by 47% of the whites. Increasingly, following one's own bent openly and unapologetically has become a criterion of moral conduct...
...Larry Poland, 29, president of Miami Bible College Inc., complained that the Apollo 10 astronauts had carried "the language of the street" to the moon and called on the crew to repent their "profanity, vulgarity and blasphemy." Each astronaut, said the minister, should be required to issue a public statement of apology...
Though the statement troubled some delegates, the 25-nation meeting declared that "the church and the world are filled with blatant institutional racism." They recommended economic sanctions against "corporations and institutions" that practice discrimination, and said that "guerrilla fighters struggling against racist regimes must be given the support of the church if all else has been seen to fail." Under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, a Methodist lay delegate, the conference added: "The church must," in certain circumstances, "support resistance movements, including revolutions, which are aimed at the elimination of political or economic tyranny that...
...competing city groups have won $256,100. According to the balloting among large cities, Chicago has the sweetest stewardesses, Kansas City the cheeriest flight officers, and Paris the nicest reservation clerks. In Paris, Reservation Clerk Denise Boivin picked up $1,000 and, for her victory statement, borrowed a slogan from another company: "Everyone is trying harder...