Word: eighting
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Richard Nixon, who served eight years as Vice President and ran for President himself in 1960, has had greater proximity to the office than any other practicing politician. Last week he offered his own conception of the presidency and, indirectly, his philosophy of government. Excerpts...
Irreparably Deluded. Solzhenitsyn escaped his prison hell on March 5, 1953, when he was released after serving his eight-year sentence. On the first day of his freedom, the local radio carried the bulletin announcing Stalin's death. Even though out of the camp, he still had to live in exile in Siberia. He began putting down on paper the stories he had worked over in his mind during his imprisonment...
...tycoon. Hermansson regularly ignores Moscow's line, and the party has become so bourgeois that he once campaigned on a platform of two houses for every family. Still, Sweden's voters were not reassured. While the Communists had won more than 6% of the popular vote and eight seats in the 233-seat Riksdag in 1964's election, last week they won only 2.9% of the popular vote, and were reduced to a maximum of three seats...
U.C.L.A.'s Murphy: The job is a physical, emotional and creative drain. You have to be sadistic to ask a man to stay on more than ten years. A man makes his greatest impact the first six to eight years on the job. After that, he becomes more of a housekeeper and less of a creative force. After a while you even get tired of hearing yourself talk. There are nights when you want to say to hell with...
Seeking Identity. But José is sorting the offers carefully. Although he is only 23, he has been a professional for six years, and some of the people who want him now were not there when he needed them. Born in Puerto Rico, the second of eight brothers, he was raised in a Manhattan slum after his father gave up farming to find a job in New York City. Jose learned to play the concertina at six and the guitar at nine. The advent of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s inspired him to try singing...