Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Councilman Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh admits: "A lot of people dissatisfied with the party here really don't feel that a Democratic loss this time would be a such a bad thing. They'd regard it as a cleansing operation." Humphrey, suffering from association with the old-line bosses, and Senator Clark, himself in a tough re-election fight, both suffer from this mood...
...love you too honey, I really do. I don't quite know how to put this but maybe we shouldn't write for awhile. For one thing my mother wrote me and said you'd written her this note and that she thought you sounded great but she was a little upset because Mary Sue this girl I knew in a way back home, seems to think I'm going to marry...
...million) country. Twice, in 1941 and 1951, he was thrown out of power. Both times he was ousted by Panama's National Guard, the country's only military force, which took exception to his highhanded policies and acted jointly with Arias' political enemies. The same thing happened again last week. Only eleven days after his inauguration for his latest term, the National Guard once more ousted Arias, who fled to safety in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone...
...main factors were behind the coup. For one thing, even though the Guard had supported him during the election, Arias reawakened the officers' longstanding animosity by trying to weaken the Guard's grip on the country's political life. He threatened to transfer, and in one case exile, a number of the leading officers. In addition, after he won a landslide victory over former Finance Minister David Samudio, Arias outraged many Panamanians by undertaking a series of unsavory political maneuvers designed to give his followers a majority in the 42-seat National Assembly...
...nearest thing to a Doer's school is probably the Peace Corps, which deliberately sets out to instill self-confidence and self-sufficiency in its volunteers. It demands performances that the trainee may not have suspected he had in him. "We may drop a person with almost no money in some community," says Robert MacAlister, director of staff training, "and tell him to hack it for three or four days. We try to get people to realize their potential The operating principle is basically that a person can do anything he believes he can do." No gauge exists...