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...Hedley Donovan, who served a year in the White House as a senior adviser to Jimmy Carter. Donovan offers a comprehensive commentary on the presidency. Having spent much of his career reflecting on nine Presidents from F.D.R. to the present, he also proposes the qualities that future aspirants should possess, not to get the job, but to do it well...
Most experts agree that Andropov does not yet possess and may never achieve the power necessary to effect profound changes in the Soviet Union. It took several years before Khrushchev and Brezhnev were able to assert themselves as the Soviet Union's unchallenged leaders. Says Harvard's Adam Ulam: "The process of succession does not begin with the death of a leader, nor does it end with the designation of his successor...
...turned out to be a true Stakhanovite: he overfulfilled his quota. When he died last week, he left to Yuri Andropov a military machine that is at least as powerful as the U.S.'s in some respects, and more powerful in others. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. now possess approximately the same number of ballistic missile warheads-more than 7,000. These warheads are the fastest, most accurate and destructive long-range weapons in the two sides' arsenals of last resort. In Soviet eyes, they symbolize the U.S.S.R.'s attainment of equality with...
They are the dukes of the American democracy, officials who possess broad powers in their states and, as a presidential year draws near, can exact tribute from the incumbent in the White House and those who want to oust him. All reason enough for the Reagan Administration to have put a high priority on maintaining at 23 the G.O.P.'s share of governorships. Another factor last week that made the gubernatorial races a bit more important to the President: his already unpopular New Federalism proposal to shift welfare burdens to the states depends on the Governors' cooperation...
...Pentagon speaks of the power curve, meaning the direction in which things are tending. Employees at McDonald's describe their specialized burnout as being burgered-out. Homosexuals possess a decadently rich special vocabulary that is on the whole inaccessible to breeders (heterosexuals...