Word: sen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking up the big corporations. The first priority is to get people thinking about economic injustice, and the focus for that discontent is the Fortune 500. Much of what they say and write, in fact, sounds like a new populism and is not far from what someone like, say. Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.) says...
...bill sponsored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) would expose medical school graduates to a draft by lottery, to serve in the National Health Service Corps in doctor poor areas. The aim of his legislation is to contrive a degree of nationalization of American medical resources. It would also establish the principle that the skill of medical treatment carries with its practice a debt to the people who need such treatment. The bill should go further, however, and require such service of all emerging physicians...
...Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.), supporting...
...really "lost": it had never been won. The U.S. tended to see Chiang's China as a unified nation with an effective central government, even idealizing it as a breeding ground for an American-style democracy. But it was none of these. Just before his death, Sun Yat-sen had described China as "a heap of loose sand." Chiang Kai-shek tried to build on that sand the foundations of a modern and united country. But during Chiang's entire tenure as China's leader, the country remained beset by outside aggression, deep internal divisions, corruption...
...national government. Among those he shunted aside was the head of Kuomintang propaganda, a firebrand named Mao Tse-tung. In the midst of these heady successes, Chiang took a portentous step in his personal life, marrying Soong Meiling, a delicately beautiful, Wellesley-educated younger sister of Sun Yat-sen's widow. In doing so he put aside his first wife, the mother of his son and heir, Taiwan's current Premier Chiang Ching-kuo; he became a convert to Christianity before the wedding...