Word: neustadt
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...streamline E.N.I.'s petroleum distribution system, Mattei is building a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland and on beyond into West Germany. He also plans a line from Venice to Wiener Neustadt in Austria, only 40 miles from the terminus of a projected Soviet line. Rumors-which Mattei neither confirms nor denies -have it that he plans to link his system directly to the Soviets...
...student of history and as a politician long fascinated by the techniques of power, John Kennedy should know the consequences of failure. "The greatest danger to a President's potential influence," wrote Columbia Professor Richard Neustadt in Presidential Power (a book Kennedy liked so well that he hired Neustadt as a consultant on Government organization), "is not the show of incapacity he makes today, but its apparent kinship to what happened yesterday, last month, last year. For if his failures seem to form a pattern, the consequence is bound to be a loss of faith in his effectiveness...
Nearly every statement Beer had made about himself during the 23 years he had spent in Palestine and Israel was found to be untrue. He claimed to have been born in Vienna and to be one of the few Jews ever to graduate from Austria's respected Wiener Neustadt military academy. Security agents could not find a single Viennese Jew in Israel who had ever known Beer back in Austria. An Austrian Defense Ministry official said that Beer's name does not appear on the roster of former students at Wiener Neustadt. Beer's vaunted military heroism...
...Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power...
Limits of Liberty. In theory, John Kennedy's growing apparatus of power rests upon his own historical study of the nation's active political leaders-a study confirmed during a recent reading of Presidential Power, by Columbia University's Professor Neustadt (who was added permanently to the Kennedy staff last week as an adviser on the structure and operations of Government). In practice, it rests on the President's determination to get things done-and his belief that in politics, power is the prime, even the only, mover of events...