Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rael's General Moshe Dayan came to see Nixon last weekend, and this week the Amir of Kuwait, in the U.S. on the last state visit of Johnson's term of office, was to pay a courtesy call on the President-elect. Gradually but inexorably, the power of the U.S. presidency was shifting from Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon...
There was no secret, at least, about why she chose the church: she much admires Marble Collegiate's pastor, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the bestselling The Power of Positive Thinking (who was bedded down late last week with a case of flu complicated by hiccups). Her family has often attended his church. Julie shares a copy of Peak's book with a Smith classmate and brides maid, Anne Davis, who says: "Dr. Peale has helped us through all the rough spots."* Sample Peale advice to newly weds: "Couples who pray together grow together-and stick together...
Whatever the differences among the Soviet leaders may have been, Hardy is unequivocal about the outcome: "Stalin's heirs occupy all the positions of power. Like Stalin, they fear the people and the truth. They created the Czechoslovak crisis and used it to intimidate the positive forces which oppose them at home...
...generation growing up would transform the situation until a Leningrad writer told me: That's where you are wrong. [The older neo-Stalinists] are dreadfully mistaken, but you can struggle against them because they believe in something. The younger ones coming up believe in nothing-except their own power and privilege.' It is a bleak thought, the older bureaucrats poisoned with Stalinism, the younger with cynicism...
...months to a foreign newsman. Over cups of thick Turkish coffee in his wood-paneled office in Athens, Papadopoulos told TIME'S Wilton Wynn of his desire to reestablish parliamentary government in Greece, reaffirmed his allegiance to King Constantine and declared his own willingness to step down from power. Self-confident and relaxed, the Premier avoided any reference to the seamier side of his army-backed regime, which still holds 1,800 Greeks in prison camps in the Aegean islands. He even denied the existence of the revolutionary council, which until recently was a stronghold of his more conservative...