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...last week. His twelve-point margin in Pennsylvania proved conclusively that he could topple tough opposition in a big Northern industrial state. In Texas, his come-from-behind victory over Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen showed that not even a popular favorite son could slow the Carter bandwagon. The overwhelming successes???he has won eight of the first ten primaries?stunned old-line political leaders...
Perón will be best remembered for the successes???and excesses?of the nine years of his first two presidential terms, before a coup sent him into exile in 1955. A professional soldier and son of a moderately wealthy landowner, he rose to power as a champion of the exploited urban workers, the "shirtless ones" as he affectionately called them...
...York City politics. To some observers, Colombo appeared to change as a result of the heady publicity: he started to view himself as a civil rights leader just as misunderstood by cops in New York as black leaders were by rural sheriffs in the South. Each of his successes???and some were formidable, even laudable?underscored his determination. But those same successes were writing his own contract...
There is clear-headed continuity in the ordering of the book, and also a flippant, strained use of fuzzy words. The historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes???"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that...
...bookstore in New York City?a bookstore called the Sunwise Turn. At present, the Sunwise Turn is one of the most successful as well as one of the most individual smaller bookstores in America. This is the story of how it has become so?of its struggles, failures and successes???intelligent bookselling, intelligently and humorously described. The book is amusing and interesting enough in itself for any ordinary reader?to anyone who has ever dabbled or intended to dabble in the difficult trade of selling books, it is crammed with the most valuable sort of information...
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