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...flight, though they concede that the account of the assassination attempts might have been fabricated to make it less embarrassing for Mao to purge the man whom he had personally designated his "closest comrade in arms and successor." After all, the Chairman had purged another designated heir, Liu Shao-chi, only five years earlier. What was evident was that Lin had been in a showdown with Chou and Mao, and had lost...
...administrator and an eloquent advocate of what he calls "the civilized society," has not only survived but has emerged with the sort of national recognition he never before enjoyed. He has made some powerful enemies within his own party, to be sure, but he has moved closer to becoming heir presumptive to Harold Wilson...
...fashioned lens. His pictures are full of forms, gestures and profiles that get trimmed by the frame, as a photo is trimmed by its rectangular format-life scanned and sliced. In this, as in his sense of the theatrics of the commonplace, Vuillard was the natural heir of Degas...
...parties were battling for the governorship, the Democratic candidate, Lieutenant Governor Wendell Ford, was the winner. The race was a partial test of President Nixon's economic policies since Ford campaigned against them. But the lone congressional contest also served as a token test. H. John Heinz III, heir to the ketchup and pickle fortune, gingerly defended Nixon's wage-price freeze in his campaign and won a 2-to-l victory. Democratic Mayor Joseph Alioto handily won re-election in San Francisco, despite the fact that he is under federal indictment for conspiracy and mail fraud...
British Impulse. Others sense that new developments, as yet dimly perceived, will make or break Europe's future. One of the optimists is Otto von Habsburg, onetime heir to the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and now a full-time promoter of European unity. "When I was a boy," he says, "the Rhine River represented a dividing line even greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such...