Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Harry Truman was saved from haberdashing by failure, Jimmy Carter was saved from peanut farming by success. Angels of ambition -Admiral Rickover's "Why not the best?", a Baptist preacher's contempt for spare-time religion, his engineer's want to shape things so they are right, a touch of anger at the neighborhood's black-baiters-wrestled him out of the warehouse and into wider fields...
...near her husband's brother there. Alton was 15, went to work in the store where he still works daily (then a general store), helped support his family on $25 a month, acquired the store in time, and saw Jimmy's father grow and pass him in success: "Everything Earl laid his hand down on, when he picked it up, there was three or four dollars. When he died he left about 4,000 acres of land and a heap of money in the bank...
...death, one member of the gang "arranged for people to write to Chiang Ch'ing affirming their oath of fealty," while the lady herself was reportedly "so eager she couldn't sit still." Another member of the gang was so confident of the plot's success that he had a photographer shoot "standard portraits" of the gang for publication when it took office. The paper further charged that in their plot to usurp state power, the four were prepared "to kill" certain people-presumably Hua and other members of the Central Committee...
Brezhnev did not make the mistake of moving all the way toward one-man power, as Khrushchev did during his last days. Therefore, responsibility for success or failure could be shared with other members of the Politburo. Brezhnev-praised by Richard Nixon more than once as the shrewdest of shrewd politicians-accomplished "collegia!" rule with astonishing success. He has nonetheless had mixed results in foreign policy, his principal achievement having been to convince his colleagues that detente with the West is desirable and necessary. The thriving state of Communist parties in Italy, France and elsewhere is taken by Moscow...
...tyranny and oppression. The revolution begun two centuries ago goes on, for much of the world still seeks the freedom and the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of law that this country has never ceased to seek, enjoy and perfect. The surest path to our own greater success, and the brightest hope for others, is to remain true to the American tradition−a heritage where reality is a point of departure but never our final horizon, and where ideals ennoble reality and enable us to shape our future...