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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Test and Trial. This week, after four days' rest in Key Biscayne, the President will return to the sweltering capital to face a test that may well prove crucial to his - and the nation's - future...
...test whether France can exist short of "grandeur" without lapsing into disorder. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned amid scandal; yet even in resigning he displayed a sense of responsibility that is itself an element of leadership. He was succeeded by fellow Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, who may yet prove to be a better manager. Portugal's authoritarian regime was ousted with at least a chance, slim though it is, that democratic leadership may take hold...
...could also lead to a new sense of concern and commitment. And such a sense could prove to be the crucial ingredient that has been missing from the elusive formula for successful leadership in the modern world. Says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber: "Sore as the public is, there is strong evidence that they are American to the core: uninterested in revolution, increasingly concerned for the civil liberties, ready for sacrifice on an equal basis with the privileged and, above all, watching and waiting for leadership...
...pursuits that become available. Mao Tse-tung might well be a student of Ibn-Khaldun; he deliberately plunged China into the tumultuous Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 to prevent precisely the sort of deterioration foreseen by the Berber sage. But Ibn-Khaldun also warned that such interventions would prove futile...
...closest to being a religious mystic, seeking to justify his faith by finding regularity in the universe. Unless Harvard can teach lessons like this, and like Toynbee's demonstration of the life-giving force of religious ideas in society, its possible rank as the best American university will prove of no ultimate value...