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...Britain has become a society of skilled workers and homeowners, a middle-class nation that no longer can respond to the Labor Party's outmoded proletarian appeal. Kinnock's dilemma is that he must change his party without risking either a split in its ranks or a revolt by the suspicious hard-line left that gave him its support. The new leader likes to say, "I can work with anyone in the Labor Party who wants to win." If he succeeds in that, Kinnock has the easy charm, the pleasing personality, the political savvy and the determination...
...Hungary a gallant, leaderless rebellion against Russia's iron rule gave promise of success-until Russia turned its retreating tanks around and set out to crush the revolt...
...Beer Hall Revolt...
...Hitler storm troops were in possession of the city and the sun was shining brightly on the following day. "Chancellor" Hitler and "Commander-in-Chief" von Ludendorff were within the War Office when the loyal Bavarian Reichswehr stormed the building, and after a short battle the "beer hall revolt" was crushed...
...finally lifts two huge buckets of pig livers for the third-class passengers. She staggers, makes it, totters up the gangplank. She is followed by other young women, beasts of burden, staggering under the bales, the cartons, the loadings of the vessel. I am pleased to watch them revolt, screaming, shaking fists at the forewoman who commands them. But next morning I am passing through the stark wonder of the gorges themselves and come to Gezhou Ba, the great dam that is the first to harness the Yangtze since nature began melting the snows of the Tibetan highlands to carve...