Word: eves
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...eve of Roosevelt's centenary, none of the men who worked with him on The Crimson is left alive. There is only the written record--the bound volumes that hold the papers from his tenure, a few letters he wrote describing his experience here, and his fond recollections of the organization that gave him his first position of power. Reconstructing the record is not easy, for in those days news stories and editorials weren't signed. Still, some legends have survived...
Last week, almost on the eve of celebrations commemorating Roosevelt's 100th birthday, Professor R.J.C. Butow of the University of Washington published in the February/March issue of American Heritage a remarkable transcript of some long-forgotten recordings at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. After three years of technical doctoring and close study, Butow re-created a Roosevelt talking indiscreetly with his aides about Japanese military threats, the black arts of politics and the sex life of his 1940 Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. Bu tow insists that Roosevelt had no "Machiavellian designs," and that the recorder "was never...
...pattern was distressingly familiar. After a New Year's Eve coup, Jerry Rawlings, 34, a former air force flight lieutenant, moved ruthlessly to fashion what he called a "people's government." Working with friends in the military, he summarily dismissed Ghana's parliament, banned political parties and suspended the nation's constitution. By the end of last week the new military government had called for special "people's tribunals" to try Ghanaians, including government officials, arrested for crimes "against the people." The announcement raised fears that the takeover would follow the course of Rawlings...
...fought to prevent blacks from taking over what was then known as Rhodesia. Mugabe claimed that some of these counterinsurgency and sabotage specialists were still in the army and the police force. Said he: "We will take action against them. We are justified now." On New Year's Eve, three white police officers were arrested for allegedly maintaining arms caches in their homes...
...settlement. At the same time, Baxter was concluding his review of voluminous material concerning the IBM case and had decided that he would drop the Government's action against the company. When Baxter flew off for a six-day skiing vacation in Utah on New Year's Eve, the cases seemed set. From a telephone at the Three Kings Condominiums in Park City, Utah, Baxter kept track of the progress of the talks. He arrived back in Washington last week just in time to make the historic announcements...