Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endurance of that image is probably the result of Ford's unusual ascent to the White House. Fate having granted Ford a reprieve from the strenuous tests of a national campaign, the nation's expectations of the new President were formed primarily by the nature of his predecessor. After the disillusionment produced by the corruption and arrogance of Richard Nixon's administration, Genghis Khan would have been welcomed with open arms. If Ford seemd incapable of inspired vision and strong leadership, he also seemed in-capable of inspired villainy or ingenious deceit. It would be enough, it seemed...
...magnificent agent of foreign powers and an undisclosible suspence sequence in which Hitchcock totally outraged the sentimental expectations of 1930s film audiences, particularly in America. Showing with Sabotage is Murder, a rarely shown Hitchcock from 1930, which should be great if it is anything like Blackmail (1929), its predecessor and the first British talkie...
Grand Rapids remains predominantly Calvinistic, and white, with non-whites comprising 11% of the population. There is a distinct attitude of tolerance. The present mayor, Abe Drasin, is a Jew; his predecessor was a black. Says Drasin, as he gazes from his office in Vandenberg Center: "This is a city of contrasts. It is a bastion of the radical right, and yet there is a substantial liberal population." Lyndon Johnson, for example, took 57% of the vote in 1964, v. 43% for Barry Gold water. In 1972 Richard Nixon beat George Mc-Govern by almost exactly the same margin...
From the looks of her bibliography, Ostrovsky had access to reams of correspondence from Celine in private hands and conducted an exhaustive series series of interviews with family and aquaintances, while McCarthy relied solely on public sources. Given the circumstances, McCarthy must have been tempted to consult his predecessor's text. Yet she is footnoted only once in the biography, to recommend her work for a contrasting opinion. Considering the deft grasp of history displayed in Celine, you'd expect Patrick McCarthy to be a shrewder politician...
...lies against Chile" at the United Nations General Assembly, which convened last week. But opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated by a bomb in his car in Buenos Aires. In October 1975, Christian Democratic Leader Bernardo Leighton, who irritated the regime by calling, as Letelier had, for a united opposition against...