Word: 21st
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...Syria, Lieut. General Hafez Assad completed his swift takeover of the government-Damascus' 21st coup in 21 years. Assad selected a little-known schoolteacher, Ahmed Khatib, 40, to succeed Noureddine Atassi as President. Khatib's principal qualification appears to be that he is, as tradition requires, a member of the Sunni, the largest Moslem sect. Assad, who appointed himself secretary-general of the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, demonstrated that he was really running Syria by ordering the previous secretary-general and his rival for power, Major General Salah Jadid, into exile in Egypt...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT called the presidency of the New York Stock Exchange "the second toughest job in the world." The present big man at the Big Board takes a similarly large view: "My job is to move these people into the 21st century." Yet neither the personas nor the performance of Robert William Haack seemed grandiose-until last week. Quiet spoken, looking younger than his 53 years, sometimes awed by the satraps of the Street, Haack had come across as more the manager and conciliator than the innovative leader. Unlike his predecessor, G. Keith Funston, who served the exchange...
...sweep and mass of "people's pageantry" was especially evident in Peking during last month's National Day parade, which celebrated the 21st anniversary of the Communist takeover. Normally a festival of empty rockets and loaded rhetoric, the event this year was an almost uninterrupted kaleidoscope of less destructive gear-balloons, pompons and brilliant fireworks (see color). If the emphasis was on anything, it was on the goal of practical "socialist reconstruction," as symbolized by gigantic sheaves of wheat drawn through the crowds by farm commune tractors...
After his 21st birthday, Prince Eddy was commissioned in the tenth Hussars, his father's regiment. On one occasion, according to Philippe Jullian in his book Edward and the Edwardians, "the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid . . . The young man's evil reputation soon spread. The rumor gained ground that he was Jack the Ripper . . ." Because of his unusually long neck, his father would tell children of the royal family, "Don't call him Uncle Eddy, call him Uncle-Eddy-Collars-and-Cuffs." Until his death...
Vellucci's political career dates back to his 21st birthday, when he ran as an independent Democrat against a slate for the Democratic City Committee. He knocked an incumbent off the slate and won a seat, which entitled him to be a delegate to that year's Democratic State Convention. There followed a long gap in his political career, which reopened in 1950 with his election to the Cambridge School Committee. He served on the Committee four years and then ran for the City Council, where he has served for 16 years. The nine-man Council elects a mayor from...