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...process of approving a new constitution, specifically named Defense Minister Lin Piao as Mao's heir. Last week's conclave repaired that embarrassing error. The constitution was revised to expunge the name of Lin Piao, who was, according to Hsinhua, publicly excoriated as a "bourgeois careerist, conspirator, counterrevolutionary, double-dealer, renegade, and traitor...
...Hugh Scott (R-Pa.). Scott, the Senate minority leader, has backed every Nixon scheme that has come down the turnpike. He has been especially vocal about Vietnam policy. He may just be a loyal careerist, but that defense did not help Adolf Eichmann...
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was a careerist whose training and education had for years been directed toward one end: marriage with Victoria. How the union proceeded forms one of the most entertaining strands in Mrs. Woodham-Smith's book. Victoria had seen him before, but she first fell in love with this blue-and-blond Parsifal in 1839. "It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert-who is beautiful," she observed in her diary. Their correspondence from the beginning was a model of Victorian decorum and devotion ("Never, never did I think I could be loved...
When the 1914 war with Germany broke out, Czarist Russia was unprepared. Yet she instantly sent two armies into East Prussia. Both were ill-equipped, underfed and hampered from headquarters by more than the usual complement of careerist nitwits, blockheaded aristocrats and plain cowards familiar in the literature of military debacle. In the resulting battle, the Russian Second Army, lumbering westward in the vicinity of Tannenberg, was enveloped by the Germans. More than 90,000 prisoners were taken. In a few days, despite great courage shown by many Russian regiments and officers, the Second Army ceased to exist. Its brave...
...hours after the fighting broke out, Radio Uganda announced that Obote had been overthrown. Then, after a musical interlude (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), it introduced his successor: Major General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, 46, a huge (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) army careerist who once reigned as Uganda's heavyweight boxing champion and has been armed-forces chief of staff since...