Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose that the Soviet Union would idly sit by and watch the dissolution of their power monopoly is and was an absurdity. All that has changed in the world situation is the escapist willingness of American leadership to believe that the nature of Communism could be anything but Communist, i.e., aggressive, imperialist, and monopolists of "the truth." It has been basically the same people who have been engaging in wishful thinking about Eastern Europe who have been opposed to our Viet Nam commitment to defend a beleaguered people from just such Communist tyranny. They have been unwilling...
Moral Myopia. Reaction from the near to the far left, and antiwar groups in general, was intriguing. The left provided some of the most outspoken criticism of the Russians (exception: the American Communist Party, which sid ed with Moscow against the "creeping counterrevolution" in Prague). The Socialist Party leadership joined with prominent liberals to urge, along with Washington, that the U.N. demand an end to Soviet intervention. But con demnation of Russia scarcely reached the pitch that generally goes with condemnation of the U.S. in Viet...
...months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party's leadership after the death of D. N. Aidit in 1965, had been killed...
...Ladies' Home Journal long considered itself "the magazine women believe in." It carefully mixed the traditional recipe-and-fashion fare with a more sophisticated content (John Gunther on politics, Margaret Mead on sex). Nonetheless, in its perennial duel with McC all's (circ. 8,500,000) for leadership of the women's field, the Journal (circ. 6,800,000) has been losing believers. Last week, as part of its radical retrenchment policies, the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. sold off the Journal, along with the household-decorating monthly American Home. The buyer: Downe Communications Inc., a consortium...
...LEADERSHIP: "I have a certain skepticism about the indiscriminate use of the word 'leader.' I always remember the wife who read the fortunetelling card her husband got from a penny weighing machine. 'You are a leader she read, 'with a magnetic personality and strong character-intelligent, witty and attractive to the opposite sex.' Then she turned the card over and added, 'It has your weight wrong...