Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during crucial moments of the campaign, the President-elect sought complete privacy. On Florida's Key Biscayne for much of the week, Nixon considered the most important of some 3,000 federal posts he must fill-jobs ranging in rank and responsibility from chauffeur to the twelve Cabinet jobs. Nixon will not announce any appointments until late next week at the earliest, but speculation was inevitably growing about the makeup of his Administration's top echelon...
...party patriarch. But so badly divided was the party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership was trying to steamroller them, leftist rank-and-file delegates hurled their badges at the shaken leaders and, amid shouts of "Farce!" and "Fakers!" stormed the platform, fists swinging...
...group shapes up into two echelons, and will probably be smaller than Johnson's 20-member personal staff. Members of the top rank will carry the title of "assistant" or "counsel" to the President. The second level will consist of "special assistants." As do most Presidents, Nixon is drawing heavily on old subordinates and advisers who have served him through many campaigns. Six of the seven men Nixon named last week have no Washington experience. Three, in fact, are recent alumni...
...jockeying began with a rare and unpopular demonstration of pro-Soviet support, staged in a downtown Prague meeting hall by the Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship Society. It drew some 3,000 middle-aged and elderly citizens, the rank and file of a hard-line group sometimes called the Novotný Orphans, in honor of Stalinist ex-Party Boss Antonin Novotný. With some 20 Soviet officers seated on stage, the crowd applauded wildly as Novotný's former foreign minister, Vaclav David, called for "an open fight against antisocialist forces." Meanwhile, outside the hall, some 500 younger Czechoslovaks waited...
...uncompromising Leninism that was crushed mercilessly in Stalin's era-and is now imperiled again. Some brought wreaths bearing ribbons that read, "For his fight against Stalinism" and "From his comrades and friends in the prisons and camps." Grigorenko, an engineer whose libertarian views cost him his army rank in 1964, urged the mourners to work for "the persistent development of genuine Leninist democracy," and scathingly dismissed the current "totalitarianism that hides behind the mask of so-called Soviet democracy" as its antithesis...