Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfaction stems from their success at confining Duběek's authority within a vastly altered party apparatus. Recently the Communist Party's Central Committee met for the first time since the invasion in plenary session and took measures that diffused the country's real leadership in an eight-man "executive committee...
...obtain any desired results. In recent campaigns, major candidates have frequently commissioned polls on certain issues, using the data to mold a popular campaign image of themselves. This sort of molding is, obviously, what politicians have always done; but it may not be in the interest of better leadership that they have an instrument as fine as the polls to help them...
...Lyndon Johnson was seriously thinking of making amiable Mike Mansfield, majority leader of the Senate, his running mate instead of Hubert Humphrey. That way, the President reasoned, Humphrey could become majority leader, giving L.B.J. far more forceful Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York...
...worse position," declared Pietro Nenni, at 77 the party patriarch. But so badly divided was the party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership was trying to steamroller them, leftist rank-and-file delegates hurled their badges at the shaken leaders and, amid shouts of "Farce!" and "Fakers!" stormed the platform, fists swinging...
...away to Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that of Imperial Rome. Hairdos, fashions and morals reached undreamed-of heights, lengths and depths. Theaters, operas and court ballets were packed the year round, while gentlefolk staged amateur theatricals by the score...