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Since most terrorists have tended to be in their teens or early 20s, the generals directed much of their first efforts to bringing the chaotic schools under control. General Haydar Saltik, secretary of the ruling National Security Council, as the junta calls itself, sent a stern message to all students calling for military-like discipline on the campuses. Teachers were warned to keep their instruction free of political ideology or face dismissal. In Kütahya, a province west of the capital of Ankara, the military commander ordered all youths to get haircuts and shaves. On the whole, most Turks...
With the '20s came a new age of bureaucratic progressivism. The Planning Board, largely advisory when formed in 1913, conducted a number of studies in the '20s. And the building code adopted in 1924 included zoning power for the city government...
...rock-ribbed supporters of party and candidates that nourished in days of yore. And if the Reagan rise was giddy and the Carter comeback startling, the gadfly persistence of Independent John Anderson adds even more bite and confusion. He blithely dismisses Reagan as "irrelevant"-a product of the '20s-and accuses Carter of abandoning his autobiographical query of Why Not the Best? for a current claim of "I'm not the worst." With such a tight contest now taking shape, Anderson and his appeal to the disgruntled of both parties could prove to be the decisive difference...
...published his first book, A Preface to Politics, at age 23 and was one of the founding editors of the New Republic. Woodrow Wilson consulted him regularly and asked him to help draw up the peace plan that emerged as the Fourteen Points. During the '20s, Lippmann wrote editorials for the New York World, the most influential Democratic paper of its time. When the World folded in 1931, he went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried by more than 200 papers and was considered...
...beginning of the end was World War I, and one of the casualties was the servant mentality; the upper class no longer had a lower one to lean on. The country house survived a little longer, and even had a renaissance during the '20s and '30s, when the Evelyn Waugh crowd made elfin sport amid the topiaries. World War II and all that followed it, most notably extortionate taxes and the declining British economy, finally put these gay places to rest. A book like this, which has pedestrian prose but enchanting pictures, is perhaps the best memorial...