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...almost totally innocent of military matters, turned over his Defense portfolio to burly, tough-minded Y. B. Chavan, 48, a former wrestler and anti-British terrorist, who has successfully served as Chief Minister of Bombay, the largest, richest and most heavily industrialized state in India. The vastly unpopular Krishna Menon, fired as Defense Minister two weeks ago. sent a plaintive message to Chavan, "Such services as you ask of me as a private citizen are always at your disposal.'' Chavan. who is a member of the Kshatriya warrior caste, spoke like a fighting man in warning Indians...
Love, making his first try for elective office, faced Democratic Governor Steve McNichols, who had an impressive record of school and highway construction, high employment and industrial development. But McNichols' achievements came at the cost of an unpopular increase in state income taxes. Love struck at this McNichols soft spot, promised a tax cut. Love's appearance and personality also helped him upset McNichols. Remarkably handsome in a man's-man way, he became a cracking good extemporaneous speaker, managed to sound persuasive even while remaining a bit vague about his political philosophy...
Machiavelli's Pupil. Erlanger makes it clear that 16th century behavior must not be cut to fit 20th century motives. In particular he observes that separation of church and state was not an unpopular idea in the 16th century; it was not an idea at all, and a ruler to whom it had been expressed would have found it incomprehensible...
...novel is a skinny English Lit cousin of Moby Dick and as a play was drydocked after a brief Broadway run, finds itself as a beautiful, terrifying and heartbreaking film. The transformation is the more admirable for the fact that Billy Budd is essentially a morality play with an unpopular moral: absolute good and absolute evil must always destroy each other...
...Roosevelt was known throughout the world as a lecturer and writer, one who frequently advocated unpopular causes. She was one of the first prominent white persons to fight for civil rights of Negroes; she headed the unsuccessful attempt to swap tractors for the prisoners seized by Fidel Castro in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion...