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...loyalties but also the history of Europe. Just after he arrived in Vienna, the Janissaries of the aggressive Ottoman Empire swept out of the East and laid siege to Vienna. His effort in the 60-day defense that was to save the city and end the Ottomans' long westward advance won him a colonelcy and his own regiment. He was a major general at 22, a field marshal before he was 30. In his 54 years of service, the Emperor's new recruit was to liberate Central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish rule...
That pace is up to 550 m.p.h., or the cruising speed at which jetliners carry the candidate to his next crowd. If he is willing to sacrifice enough sleep, the candidate can race the sun westward. The day is usually 20 hours long. And to newsmen chasing two jets called Air Force One (Johnson) and Yia Bi Kin (Goldwater), the two prop jets Niagaran (Miller) and Happy Warrior (Humphrey), the campaign day is usually a 20-hour blur...
...natural gas or, in water-parched Southern California, nuclear reactors that will convert salt water to fresh while they generate electricity. The associates' first president, Dick Walter Reeves, 61, head of the Public Service Co. of New Mexico, expects the scheme to lure enough new industry WESTward to provide thousands of new jobs. WEST itself, by 1986, will be paying an additional $75 million in taxes...
...Start. One reason for the boom is the stimulus of the U.S. economy's upswing, which has greatly increased bank earnings. In addition, the sprawl of the suburbs and the westward population drift have created a need for expanded lending and checking-account services that cannot be met by established banks, which state laws often bar from branching. Partly to skip around those archaic laws, U.S. Controller of the Currency James J. Saxon has been eagerly chartering new national banks. He hopes that they will introduce fresh methods, hone competition to the consumer's benefit, and revitalize...
...confusion that followed Turkey's 1960 military coup, Kocero kept extending his franchise westward, and the government began organizing huge hunting parties to track him down. "Why this display of government forces, army, gendarmery, police?" he once complained. "After all, I am but a simple murderer...