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Change will not come tomorrow, for Ho and other leaders had tried to lay the groundwork for a tranquil succession. Over the past several years, Ho had gradually moved away from the day-to-day exercise of power, turning over routine responsibilities to a triumvirate consisting of Premier Pham Van Dong, Party First Secretary Le Duan and high-ranking Politburo Member Truong Chinh, all in their early 60s (see box, page 28). For the immediate future, Ho's title will probably be taken by Vice President Ton Due Thang, an 81-year-old nonentity. Actual power will probably be wielded...
...John Womack, an assistant professor of history whose jeans and leather jacket are indistinguishable from those of his students and who himself graduated from Harvard in 1959: "Students just simply refuse to learn what they don't want to learn. They are less willing to do the necessary groundwork to form their opinions. They rely more upon insight and a sort of induction that I haven't figured out. In my day, the professor would beg the students, 'Don't just read the material; think about it.' Today the problem is almost the opposite...
...idea for a bank in Roxbury came from a Negro student at Harvard Business School, John Hayden, now 26. He wrote his master's thesis on black banking and then started buttonholing influential people, including Sneed. Businessman Sneed, who never went to college, did most of the groundwork. He advertised "the bank with a purpose" in the ghetto weekly and sold $10 shares in the venture to 3,358 small investors. Boston's National Shawmut Bank and the New England Merchants National Bank contributed advice...
THINGS began to happen in Washington. After three months of cautious groundwork since the election and three weeks of intensive study and preparation since the Inauguration, the Nixon Administration signaled an end to the presidential interregnum-that period after the previous chief executive has departed and before the new one has found his pace. Though Richard Nixon remained fascinated by procedure and form, the predominant note of the week was movement. In both foreign and domestic policy, the U.S. for the first time felt the guiding hand of its new leadership...