Word: succeeded
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...league's white officials. "Of course I'm for Black Power," declared James A. Linen, President of Time Inc. and newly elected national president of the league. "But not for black terrorist power, not for black power for vengeance-but for vindication. Black Power will succeed if black Americans push into the world rather than withdraw from...
...cause for concern." Of the alleged snipers, three are dead and two in jail. Ahmed Evans was charged with first-degree murder, along with lesser offenses, such as the possession of narcotics and an automatic rifle. If the snipers hoped to cause outright insurrection in Cleveland, they did not succeed. If they wanted merely to create local turmoil and national apprehension, they succeeded all too well...
Kennedy's "final, firm" decision will probably succeed in discouraging further pressure on him to run in the cause of party unity and loyalty. But the fourth and last Kennedy brother was hardly renouncing the family legacy of active political leadership. At 36, he has many years to build his career and a safe Senate seat as a base...
...doubtful that the offer, which has another week to run, will succeed. The Federal Communications Commission has entered the scene, particularly because Hughes already owns one television station in Las Vegas (KLAS-TV) and control of ABC would give him five more stations, one above the legal limit. The FCC last week ordered Hughes not to try to exercise control of the network without its approval...
...view of President Johnson's fondness for unexpected appointments, the nomination of Fortas to succeed Earl Warren was surprising only in its predictability. A close friend and adviser, whom Johnson had named to take Arthur Goldberg's place in 1965, Fortas has distinguished himself in three Sessions on the Supreme Court, closely following?and to an increasing degree leading?the activist bloc that has dominated the Warren court for the past 15 years. If he was not a surprise, he was, at least in one way, unique. The fifth Jew to sit on the bench?the others were Louis Brandeis...