Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been far more successful. Regimes calling themselves Marxist (and who has a right to say they are not?) rule a third of mankind. Their future expansion, while not as likely as it seemed 20 years ago, is by no means impossible. But neither failed Marxist theory nor entrenched Marxist power explains why Marxism can today provide slogans for the uproar in U.S. colleges and ghettos, courage for guerrillas in Viet Nam, flickers of hope for anxious intellectuals and bewildered peasants...
...appeal to what Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber calls France's "overriding concern" with stability. Not the least of his weapons was to mention the virtual necessity of Poher's calling new parliamentary elections should he win: having voted eleven times since De Gaulle came to power, France is tired of elections...
Died. Robert G. LeTourneau, 80, giant of the earth-moving industry, who for 33 years pledged 90% of his personal earnings to a myriad of Christian causes; of a stroke; in Longview, Texas. In an industry noted for the size and power of its machines, none matched the Brobdingnagian creations of LeTourneau, which constituted 70% of the heavy earth-moving equipment used in World War II. LeTourneau credited his success to a "partnership with God" made in 1932 when he resolved to pledge all his future profits and much of his energy to religion. "The more time I spent...
...commission rates -which now range from $6 to $75 for every 100 shares traded, depending on price-and letting every broker charge whatever he can persuade customers to pay. The idea horrifies Haack. He contends, probably rightly, that it would discriminate in favor of institutions, which have the bargaining power to drive down rates, and against individual investors...
...improve the world? I think that people today have rejected the New Left view that the system is rotten. They want to get in the system and do something about it, to work for the ends that they think are worthwhile. It's really a new use of power and money for good...