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Others, such as Russell and McCormack, are too old to stand a brisk pace, or still cling to the simpler tastes of their humble beginnings. But younger congressional leaders, such as Carl Albert and Gerald Ford, also avoid convivial Washington, finding their pleasures in home and family. Like the patriarchs of Congress, they feel no need for the social acceptance so avidly sought by many in the Washington whirl. As one Senate wife observed: "They don't go out a lot or entertain, except for close personal friends. They don't need to. They're there...
Park's opponents have long feared that he was plotting to cling to the Blue House, his official mansion in Seoul. Last month the sort of student protests that brought down Rhee in 1960 erupted against Park. After rock-throwing clashes countered by tear gas, the police managed to restore order. Park's sudden announcement of his bid to stay in office may provoke new and more serious troubles. Politicians in the splintered opposition groups, students and intellectuals complain that Park has been in power too long and that his Democratic Republican Party is corrupt. Park himself remains...
...descriptions of the lunar rocks, many of which seemed to be basaltic, or of volcanic origin. Though Aldrin originally used the word wet to describe the lunar soil that he extracted with a core sampler, it was later explained that he had meant simply that the material tended to cling together because of the lunar vacuum...
Talk about identity crisis! The Socialists have suffered from one practically since birth. Their problem is how to cling to Socialist principles without either being drawn toward Communism or embracing the bourgeois Establishment. Nowhere has the conflict been more tortured than in Italy. There, Socialists are outflanked on the left by the West's strongest Communist Party, while the center is pre-empted by the dominant Christian Democrats. Ever in search of a role, often quarreling among themselves, the Socialists have contributed greatly to Italy's protean politics. They have just caused the latest Italian government crisis...
...fool so many. By revealing the necessary delicacy of timing-a single miscalculation of hours or minutes can send the plotters to their execution-he also shows how easy it is to prevent a coup. In his appendices Luttwak offers other advice for despots eager to cling to their posts. It resembles that given by one of the tyrants of ancient Greece. Asked how it was that he was never troubled by rivals, the tyrant walked into his garden and, without a word, lopped off the heads of the tallest flowers...