Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night sky above the sleeping city of Babylon far below?imperceptibly wheeling in the ancient celestial dance that contained the secrets of the future of the kingdom. The signs, he saw, were good. Zibbati was well advanced in the Way of Enlil, supported by glowing Ishtar, which favored success in arms. On the morrow, he would tell the king that the time was opportune to move against the Assyrians...
...some of these planet-gods, which were thought to be actual superbeings, could be inferred from their appearance and movement. Mars' bloody color made it the martial god of war; Mercury's quick motion near the sun gave it a nervous, mercurial quality; big, bright Jupiter suggested power, success and the joviality that goes with them; bright-burning Venus, seen so often in the beauty of evening, suggested love...
...back on a footlight fame that shines far beyond Italy. Son of a recently retired railroad worker, Fo was an enthusiastic amateur actor in his youth, appearing in student plays while studying architecture in Milan. At 24 he worked up a one-man act reciting monologues. His first nationwide success was a three-act tragi-comedy that examined the making of a hero, coming to the conclusion that the hero is only a creation of the "big boss," who used him to keep the workers distracted while the boss exploited them. His greatest hit, written...
...this modest success, he would be little noted except for the happenstance that one day a customer bought some unrecorded artifact and asked him to describe the old Pennsylvania farmhouse it came from. Words failed him, and he decided that the only way he could convey his vision was to paint it-even though he had not really put brush to canvas since childhood. To his astonishment, the woman insisted on buying it for $25. With that chance sale...
...Roosevelt's day, and his economic advisers supported tight-money policies few businessmen favored. John Kennedy had his celebrated showdown over steel-industry price increases, but he also advocated the tax cut that gave a substantial lift to profits. Lyndon Johnson eagerly courted businessmen and had great initial success, though the relationship deteriorated. How will businessmen fare with Richard Nixon...