Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Strike in 1926. Smart politicians of both parties might be content to lean back and let the other fellow bear the brunt of the approaching disasters, then move in on a landslide to pick up the pieces. Perhaps this is part of the reason none of the younger, less tarnished politicians of either party have pressured their shopworn leaders into resigning--Heath or Wilson's last, greatest service to their supporters could be to serve as scapegoats...
...back to reality, the family tends to become overprotective for fear of letting him down. Through the best of intentions, they thus confirm him in his illusions. Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel, whose husband of 32 years, the Democratic Governor of Maryland, deserted her last year in order to marry a younger woman, concurs. "A man like Marvin Mandel, he starts to believe what his staff tells him, and they only tell him what he wants to hear. Then he comes home, and his wife tells him the truth...
...technocrat who rose through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Schmidt, 55, is only five years younger than Willy Brandt, but his brusque, businesslike style has made it seem as if a new generation has taken over in Bonn. Bouncing out of his Rhineside bungalow early each morning, he likes to blast a referee's whistle as he starts across the lawn to the chancellery. The message to his aides: get things moving. To Germans, he is known as a Macher (doer). He has cut out the rambling presentations from ministers that Brandt allowed and lectured them...
...legislation all my life." Then he added: "But I've been hard-headed on foreign affairs," alluding to his superhawk loyalist stand on Viet Nam and President Nixon. None of the fire-or ire-has left Joe's writing since the death earlier this year of his younger brother and former partner Stewart. Still, Alsop admits that he is tired. "The reporter's trade is for young men," he said. "The great Americans of the postwar period," he wrote in a column announcing his retirement, "were the leaders I followed. Theirs were the ideas I shared...
...peak, Rogers' original column ran in 500 papers and reached about 40 million readers. An estimated 10 million are witnessing the current revival, and response has been enthusiastic. Sterling reports heavy mail, not only from old Rogers buffs but also from younger readers who are seeing him in print for the first time. Presumably, they find that events today tend to bear out Sterling's favorite Rogers line: "Any man who thinks civilization has advanced is an egotist...