Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KANSAS. The Republican Senate primary was a triumph of sentimentality, a belated vicarious victory for native son Alfred Landon, who lost so spectacularly to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election. Landon's daughter, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, a separated mother of four and former aide to incumbent Senator James Pearson, who is retiring, outpolled eight rivals, all of whom grumbled that they did not have her name. Indeed, she made the most of it. "A fresh voice," proclaimed her TV ads, "and a trusted name." Her father, a spry 90, did not participate much in the campaign...
...True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph of good over evil. Of course, work demands some reward, and so, with the play completed, the playwright has left her Paris home for an August breather in Germany's Black Forest. "My head is empty at the moment," she says. "I just want to walk, walk, walk...
...create a new heaven on earth, or even a "new man"? The Nazi notion of racial purity led inexorably to Auschwitz and the Final Solution. Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sent millions to their deaths in the name of a supposedly moral cause-in their case, the desired triumph of socialism. Now the Cambodians have taken bloodbath sociology to its logical conclusion. Karl Marx declared that money was at the heart of man's original sin, the acquisition of capital. The men behind Cambodia's Angka Loeu (Organization on High), who absorbed such verities while students...
...than it is now. The bitterness that surrounds everything they do--and the gleeful media reaction and pressure that fed on it and built it up--has made rooting for them an ordeal, even it they did win it all last year and come close the year before. Every triumph over the Steinbrenner-inspired mania was hardearned. No wonder so many of the players, led by Munson, want out. Who would want to play for a man as manipulative and unsavory as Steinbrenner...
...Vice President Robert McNamara brought him to Detroit as marketing director for Ford trucks. In 1960, at the precocious age of 36, lacocca attained what was at one time his life's goal, a Ford vice presidency (in charge of the Ford Division). It was not a complete triumph; his plan had been to be there by age 35. "He had a schedule for himself as to what amount of money he would like to be making," his wife Mary once said. "Like maybe in five years he might like to be making $5,000 and in ten years...