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RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT, by Alexander Kerensky. An intriguing though somewhat sketchy eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution as seen by its first Prime Minister, whose efforts to bring democracy to Russia failed after only 3½months...
...without Prescott's Conquest of Peru (an astounding achievements-researched and written Jasmite the almost total blindness Prescott incurred from a food throwing fracas among Harvard students-and still, after more than a century, the definitive work on the subject). And Shaffer did his homework well. He follows the account in Book III of Prescott rather more closely than Shakespeare kept to his historical sources...
...candidate--dark horses include Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Congressman Samuel Stratton, and Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson--will have to take into account the influence of New York's junior Senator. Robert Kennedy has no single bloc of loyal convention delegates, and he is making no effort to build one. But there is every reason to believe that Kennedy will try to pass the word at the right time to whomever be considers most acceptable...
...Kicking Tires. Unlike the auto industry, in which buyers crowd into showrooms to kick tires and slam doors, the truckmakers rely on aggressive bell-ringing salesmanship. The fleet owners, the largest of which are A.T. & T., Hertz and REA Express, account for 30% of all sales. They care less about chrome than about axle ratios and operating costs, unlike auto buyers insist on vehicles that will easily run 400,000 miles without major overhaul. All the salesmen's calls and painstaking demonstrations for show-me truckers are worth the effort, however. Depending on optional equipment, truck sales...
...childhood and student days, but once he reaches maturity it becomes exasperatingly vague; he never discusses his home life or makes reference to his friends. As an eyewitness to and a participant in the greatest social upheaval in history, Kerensky is even more disappointing. There is no account of the conniving and maneuvering that brought him from the status of a modest provincial lawyer to the leadership of Russia's first revolutionary government. Although he and Lenin were both born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) and his schoolmaster father had Lenin for a pupil, he met Lenin only once...