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...competition took many forms, all capitalistic, and gave birth to many different forms of government. In 18th century England and France, budding capitalists strove with a waning monarchical power to establish democracy, or a working balance between the perquisites of government and the perquisites of merchant princes. In Germany and Japan, where the peasantry was too weak or disunited to resist, the same power struggle generated fascism-a conservative revolution imposed from the top. In China and Russia, political schemers carefully marshaled peasant discontent, smoldering over centuries, and used it to overthrow the old order -creating Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pessimist's World | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...never in short supply. An uninhibited California Irishman, Fay was invariably good for a laugh, whether singing Hooray for Hollywood in a Morton Downey tenor or cheerfully playing straight man to the Kennedy wit. "Grand Old Lovable," was Kennedy's name for his pal, and Fay strove to deserve it. One day at church the President, who rarely carried any money, leaned over to his friend. "Slip me at least a ten," he whispered to Fay. "I want them to know this is a generous President." Grand Old Lovable obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The President's Buddy | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...ironic that the Righteous Brothers, who got their first big break (so legend goes) by doing a great warm-up act before the Beatles' Los Angeles performance of 1964, brought with them two warm-up groups who strove to outdo each other only in tastelessness. Nino Temple and April Stevens once had a hit with a sappy 1930's revival called "Deep Purple." They spent their time on stage making bad jokes about his virility and displaying her eroticism to the worst advantage. Gaylord and Holliday, a comedy team, did a wonderful parody of Sonny and Cher's "Bang-Bang...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: R 'n' R -- For Love or Money | 10/27/1966 | See Source »

...late O. E. Rolvaag's 1924 classic Giants in the Earth portrayed the trials of a yeoman Norwegian family that strove doggedly to conquer the Great Plains, only to be consumed in the struggle. The author's son, Minnesota Governor Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: To the Woodshed | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...need to venture beyond his Park Avenue apartment to know that Rocky had the state convention sewn up in advance. But while the Governor was inviting him to serve as campaign chairman-and mentioning him for the state's favorite-son nomination in 1968-Javits cannily strove to create the impression that it was he who retained the initiative. He ended, predictably, by announcing his support for Rockefeller's gubernatorial campaign, while pointedly reminding the public that the Governor had renounced all further presidential ambitions. The G.O.P., after all, could hardly nominate two New Yorkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: A Mormon-Jewish Ticket? | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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