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...student who did attend the review gained a significant or unfair advantage over myself and those who missed it. For a student who attended lecture and read the novels, the examination was interesting and just; for those who did not, an awareness of the exam's format and partial content would not have made a difference...
Elaborate Plan. At one point the "colonel" demanded of Murphy: "Did you know that eight Jews run this country, and they weren't even elected?" His partial listing of the elite included Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, as well as several high officials who are not Jewish. He went on to name local people, besides Murphy, whom the "army" had considered kidnaping. The list included Atlanta's recently installed and amply girthed mayor, Maynard Jackson, and in a flash of mordant wit the kidnaper quipped: "We decided against the mayor because he wouldn...
Following Perot's partial merger of the firms, Walston was given the retail stock-trading operation, while duPont Glore Forgan Inc. handled customer accounts, stock clearing and other record-keeping duties with data-processing techniques that Perot brought with him from Texas. To put the two firms back on their feet, he has poured in some $100 million from his own considerable fortune...
From this mood, suggest several of the authors, there arose a crisis mentality that gave everything a life or death urgency. There was scant tolerance for moderate success or partial failure. Charles V. Hamilton, professor of government at Columbia University, argues that the crises of the '60s invariably passed through the same phases. First there was mild protest from a part of the public, then a mild response from the Government. This was followed by escalated protest, then a panic response. Once the panic had passed, there was a revulsion against whatever concessions had been made or promised...
...Another partial success of the '60s was overshadowed by unforeseen consequences, what Daniel P. Moynihan has called the "hidden policies" that inevitably accompany the intended ones. In 1968, the last year of the Johnson Administration, Congress passed a massive housing bill that contributed to the biggest residential building boom in U.S. history: 3 million housing starts in 1970, compared with the previous record of 2 million...