Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influence in Asia" of Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, who hopes, on Aug. 31, to preside over the birth of Malaysia, a merger of Malaya with Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo. Macapagal went on: "The question in the minds of many is, 'Will this conference succeed-?' " At that moment the power failed, out went the lights, off went the microphones and air conditioning. It looked like a sign...
Director Robert Lanchester did not succeed in mastering all his adversities. In fact, he seems to have ignored quite a few of them--the minor characters, for instance--hoping to produce a satisfactory drama solely by concentrating on the two major figures in the play...
Despite his early start in business (he went only as far as the eighth grade in school, but studied math nights as a teen-ager), Ludwig did not succeed in a big way until he was close to 40. The Depression washed out what little he had made in the '20s by buying war-surplus ships for charter, and a shipboard explosion left him with a painful back injury similar to President Kennedy's (it was cured in a risky operation a decade ago). In the mid-1930s, as the shipping market grew stronger, Ludwig broke through with...
...Hilton chain, during this year's first quarter, domestic revenues fell 10.6% and profits by nearly a half, offsetting profits from abroad. The recently opened New York Hilton (2,153 rooms) in Rockefeller Center offers what new U.S. hotels need nowadays if they hope to succeed: free parking to compete with the motels, expensive specialty restaurants to attract the high-livers, and lots of room for conventions to meet. It may be the last of its kind. "With perhaps an exception here and there," says Conrad Hilton, "we are not going to build any more large hotels in this...
...have a daughter, Francesca, 16). His eldest son, Nickie, 37, has settled down after his playboy days as Elizabeth Taylor's first husband, is now a hard-working vice president in charge of Hilton Inns; but Nick, in the eyes of many, lacks the ambition and imagination to succeed his father. Barren Hilton, 35, -also a vice president-has his father's flair for deals, but the board blames him for losing money running the Carte Blanche credit card venture. Another son, Eric, has worked his way up through the ranks to become resident manager of Houston...