Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporter in Asia since 1958, Lederer has made it his job to get what he calls "the real facts" about the conditions in Asian countries. A copious note-taker, he follows one uncompromising principle: the truth can only be found by talking to the rank-and-file people of a country...
Lederer believes that although revolutions are organized by minorities, they can spread only if there is discontent among the rank-and-file people. Because American policy decisions are based on estimates of the stability of regimes, he says, it is crucial to have precise information on the real feelings of major groups in the population. Lederer strongly urges recruiting more area experts for the foreign service...
...roles with zeal and efficiency. Though skeptics might reverse his slogan-"Good government is good politics"-King Richard has made it work well enough to satisfy the "big mules" of Chicago's power structure. Nudged by the nation's most formidable political machine, the city's rank-and-file voters agreed...
Three Quebecois. More important was the elevation to Cabinet rank of three young Quebecois who some day may contend for the leadership...
Unitarian President Dana McLean Greeley said that the survey confirms his church's conviction that it represents "a small, intellectually and socially advanced segment of society, not the rank and file." The segment is growing. Unitarian membership within the past decade has doubled to 276,944, and church leaders expect it to reach...