Word: class
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graduated 214th in his West Point class of 310. But after that his career was meteoric. Though he saw combat in Korea...
...seventh of twelve children born to a working-class family in gritty Bayonne, N.J. An orphan at 17, he began as a $48-a-week laborer. Now, he is the principal stockholder of the $50 million-a-year Schiavone Construction Co. in Secaucus, a "realization of the American dream," he says proudly. But Ronald Reagan's choice of Raymond James Donovan, 50, to be Secretary of Labor probably owes less to his business acumen than to his accomplishments as a political fund raiser. By Donovan's own account, he raised more than $600,000 for Reagan...
...Soviet hegemony is force and intimidation, not shared purpose. Says Seweryn Bialer, head of Columbia University's Research Institute on International Change: "Previous challenges to Soviet control have come from above, from the leaders of satellite nations. The Polish challenge comes from below, from the workers, the only class of which the Soviet Union is afraid...
...theology. As Adam Bromke, an expert on Eastern Europe at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy: "It undermines the legitimacy on which Communist power rests by refuting the claim of the Communist Party to be the sole authentic representative of the working class." Communist orthodoxy predicates authoritarian rule: a bedrock belief of Marxism-Leninism is the absolute dictatorship of the proletariat, as represented by its vanguard, the Party. In practical terms, Moscow-style Communism also insists on rigid central planning; that kind of "command" economy is in trouble if it cannot command...
...Graber personally spent two days poring over the living quarters, including the Carters' bedroom. Carter people, who have been rather stung by all the press commentary on the "style" that the Reagans might restore to the capital; snickered gleefully that all the newcomers would bring was "Beverly Hills class." Few other First Families have plunged into redecoration right away. One of the first things the Kennedys intended to do was convert a bedroom to a private dining room, but they did not get around to it for months...