Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCurdy calls Meyer's ability to rally and inspire the squad an "amazing force," as a captain, and attributes the very special spirit of the Harvard harriers in large part to Meyer's leadership...
...Question at Hand is, "Does the practical consideration of having the public affairs library endowed by whomever outweigh the ethical consideration that whomever does not meet the standards for leadership in public affairs?". I think not. The endowment should be returned...
Canadians are increasingly conscious, however, of the Conservatives' Alberta-born leader, Joseph Clark, 39, as an acceptable alternative to Trudeau. Ridiculed by one Toronto paper as "Joe Who?" when he won the Tory leadership in 1976, Clark has a shrewd ability to capitalize on popular concerns. During the by-election campaign he proposed new Canadian tax laws allowing partial deductions for property taxes and mortgage interest from federal income taxes. Despite his party's traditional inability to win votes in Quebec, Clark confidently declared last week: "The Conservatives alone can form a national government. The Liberals have lost...
...Eiffel Tower into a hulk of twisted steel. Responsibility is claimed by a terrorist group that calls itself Society Against the State. To restore his government's credibility, the President tries a dramatic gesture: he appoints Michel Rocard, a charismatic economist who is currently challenging Francois Mitterrand for leadership of the Socialist Party, as Premier. Rocard, however, exacts a price. During a secret meeting with Giscard, he warns: "I am not one of those leftists who, once in power, adopt the policies of the right...
...Hungary, every diocese now .has a bishop for the first time since 1948. But while an estimated 65% of the population are Catholic, far fewer attend religious services. That is partly the result of a long vacuum in Catholic leadership during Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's 15 years of asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. The appeal of the spiritual is by no means dead, though. When Protestants invited Billy Graham to Hungary last year, his first rally drew...