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...caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
...permitted to improve his position by the killing, but should not be compelled to surrender property to which he would have been entitled if there had been no killing." As for Charlotte's manslaughter argument, the court ruled that slayers convicted of involuntary manslaughter may fully inherit their victims' estates because the crime involves no intent to kill. Not so for those convicted of voluntary manslaughter, which does involve intent to kill. Result: Charlotte wins the title without the cash, which still goes to her late husband's parents...
...Vishnu, the god of rain. Many of his countrymen believe that Sukarno is blessed with kesaktian, a supernatural magic power that protects him from evil and makes him superhuman. Palace servants used to sell bottles of his bath water to peasants, who hoped that by drinking it they would inherit some of his magic...
Ceausescu did not inherit his predecessor's taste for luxury, dresses modestly, has no penchant for publicity; there are no photographs of him in Bucharest's streets. He keeps his private life so quiet that no one is sure where he lives. Dej had a chain of villas-one in Sinaia, one in Predeal, another in Mamaia, and one replete with private movie theater, a television screen that covered a wall, electronic door openers and infra-red radiators. Hard-working and humorless, clever but cautious, Ceausescu is infra-Red all by himself...
That means a series of Humphrey-Kennedy primary battles, with Kennedy likely to come out ahead. Humphrey will inherit all the Administration's unpopularities--a back-breaking burden if the Vietnam war is still going on. Kennedy will have a clear advantage of the already-begun do-se-do maneuvering--Bobby to the left, Hubert to the right. Kennedy can keep making more and more liberal statements and never risk his standing with basically conservative big-city Roman Catholic voters that form the bedrock of his support. Humphrey, on the other hand, can lose the temperamental self-conscious liberal vote...