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- 601: Raoul Wallenberg
- ... told Raoul of his plans to open a world bank and that he would like his help. Farfar told Raoul exiting stories of the Wallenergs in the past. Jacob Wallenberg helped open trade routes to China and Japan. His great grand father, Andre Oscar, went to sea at the age of fifteen and became a steam boat captain not long after. Raoul dreamed of being one of the "Big Men" like ...
- 602: Nikita Khrushcev
- ... year economic plan two years short of its completion. By 1964 Khrushchev’s prestige had been injured in a number of areas. Industrial growth slowed, while agriculture showed no new progress. Abroad, the split with China, the Berlin crisis, and the Cuban fiasco hurt the Soviet Union’s international stature, and Khrushchev’s efforts to improve relations with the West antagonized many in the military. Finally, the 1962 party reorganization caused ...
- 603: John Updike
- ... Korea. In 1992 Harvard gave him Doctors of Letters Degree during the June 31 commencement. 1998 Harvard awarded him the Harvard’s Arts First Medal and later that year he traveled with his wife to China ("Updike,John 414). When he moved his family to Ipswhich, Maine he completed a 600-page novel called Home. He completed his first famous novel The Poorhouse Fair and in 1960 that book received a ...
- 604: John F. Kennedy
- ... of Representatives, during the Democratic Administrations of President harry S. Truman. He supported legislation that would serve the interests of his constituents. He also joined with Republicans in criticizing the Truman administration's handling of China. Kennedy easily won reelection to Congress in 1948 and 1950. "In 1952 he decided to run against incumbent Republican Senator henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Because Kennedy was little know outside his congressional district." (Encarta' 95 ...
- 605: Jimmy Carter
- ... Camp David agreement of 1978, he helped bring amity between Egypt and Israel. He also succeeded in obtaining ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. He established full diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China and completed negotiations of the SALT II nuclear limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. Although he may have succeeded in several things he also failed in some area, for example take the SALT II treaty ...
- 606: J.D. Salinger
- ... for happiness through religion. It is a way to free them. Salinger uses much of the Zen philosophy to attain this freedom. The Zen Philosophy was a new sect of Buddhism that came out of China. It promoted Meditation as the way to personal fulfillment ("Zen" 146). One of Salinger’s characters in "Nine Stories" has a certain philosophy about life that runs parallel to the Eightfold Path used in the ...
- 607: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... poetic memories of Antiquity are still so fresh" (qtd. in Duchêne 33). Schliemann began his travels in Asia, and began the habit of keeping a wanderer's journal. He wrote an account of his journey, China and Japan Today, for a St. Peterburg newspaper. The odyssey ended six months later in San Francisco, which he had visited ten years earlier following the death of his brother in California (Duchêne 36). In ...
- 608: Harry S. Truman
- ... from it." A long, discouraging struggle ensued as U.N. forces held a line above the old boundary of South Korea. Truman kept the war a limited one, rather than risk a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia. Deciding not to run again, he retired to Independence; at age 88, he died December 26, 1972, after a stubborn fight for life.
- 609: Ghengis Khan The Great
- ... for weeks. They survived the trip by drinking blood and milk from their horses. Genghis defeated the Xi Xia Empire very easily. Genghis was the only person who ever broke through the Great Wall of China. He arrived at the wall in late 1214. He surveyed the wall and found a weak spot. He broke through the wall in 1215. The emperor realized that there was no escape and offered gold ...
- 610: George C. Marshall
- ... the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall was promoted to General of the Army. He spent a year in China in 1945-46 as President Truman's representative, attempting to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the nationalists and the communists. As Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an ...
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