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== Historical parallels ==
== Historical parallels ==
* When [[Richard Nixon]] began his "four-phase program" of economic controls, beginning with his ninety-day wage-and-price freeze, Miss Rand commented tartly that she had anticipated that very sort of program in her work.
* When [[Richard Nixon]] began his "four-phase program" of economic controls, beginning with his ninety-day wage-and-price freeze, Miss Rand commented tartly that she had anticipated that very sort of program in her work.
* That Miss Rand chose November 22 for the date of the "report on the world crisis," and that was the very date, six years after the publication of the novel, of the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]], might or might not be coincidental.
* Miss Rand chose November 22 for the date of the "report on the world crisis." On that very date, six years after the publication of the novel, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] shot and killed [[John F. Kennedy]].
* When the [[Northeast Blackout of 1965]] occurred, many students of Objectivism remembered tuning in their radios and half expecting someone to say, "This is John Galt speaking...."
* When the [[Northeast Blackout of 1965]] occurred, many students of Objectivism remembered tuning in their radios and half expecting someone to say, "This is John Galt speaking...."