Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complicated fiscal matters in a way everyone can grasp, Schiller might be considered for the chancellorship some day, despite his diminutive, unprepossessing appearance. Schiller is particularly pleased at having outfoxed the Christian Democrats, who opposed mark revaluation, by convincing housewives that a higher-priced mark would increase their buying power...
Sweden last week chose a Social Democrat as leader, right in step with the West Germans. But Sweden's Social Democrats have been in power for 37 years, save for a 100-day lapse in 1936, and their new Prime Minister is 13 years younger, and somewhat livelier, than is Willy Brandt. As Minister of Communications, Olof Palme helped steer the country from left-to right-hand traffic in 1967. According to his critics, that was the only time Olof has moved away from the left since he started shaving. Conservatives in his own country call him a renegade...
...these freshmen toward education, college administrators had better lock up the administration building extra-tight-or speed up greater student participation in university government. Almost half of the new collegians plan to take an active part in campus politics; a clear majority believe that students should have the power to affect all university decisions. More than 40% think that their schools have a duty to take official public positions on the nation's political and moral issues...
...test whether a man threatened with prosecution under a state law for exercising his right of free speech may ask a federal court to strike down that law. In one case, a group of antiwar demonstrators in Texas had persuaded a federal court that it did indeed have the power to void a state law that banned "loud and vociferous language calculated to disturb...
When the demand for reform became overwhelming in 1966, the rigid regime of Antonin Novotný hesitantly began decentralizing the economy while trying to maintain tight political control. After Alexander Dubček rose to power in 1968, he added the vital ingredient of political freedom and adopted a series of reforms proposed by Economist Ota Sik. As Deputy Prime Minister under Dubček, Sik initiated far-reaching decentralization and began rapidly to modernize the economy, particularly in consumer industries that had suffered from decades of neglect. Sik also hoped to get $400 million in credits from the West...